Atheists Do Have Songs
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The comedian Steve Martin has said: "Atheists don't got no songs." That is funny, but untrue. As a change of pace this Thanksgiving week, FFRF's audio engineer and announcer Buzz Kemper hosts and DJs a show of historic and contemporary freethought songs from the three albums produced by the Freedom From Religion Foundation: "Friendly Neighborhood Atheist," "Beware of Dogma" and "Adrift on a Star."
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:19.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. Living for today. |
| 1:01.8 | Hello and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:03.4 | I'm Buzz Kemper. |
| 1:08.9 | I'm sitting in for Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor on this program, |
| 1:17.2 | and it is my privilege to bring you some free thought music for the next hour or so. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm very glad to have you along, and in case you're thinking, well, that voice, that name sound vaguely familiar. |
| 1:30.4 | It's because the name, because Dan and Annie Lori very kindly credit me as their engineer, which I am for most of these programs. And also, |
| 1:38.3 | I am the voice on what we call the bumpers. So I'm the guy who says, as Mark Twain once said, |
| 1:46.7 | Faith is believing what you know ain't so. So I get to do that kind of stuff. But today I get to be a |
| 1:53.6 | DJ, which I'm really looking forward to, and I am very glad to have you along with me. |
| 2:01.0 | And we're going to be sampling from a number of different records that the Freedom from Religion Foundation and Dan personally have been very much involved in. |
| 2:12.7 | Four different CDs that we'll be sampling from, only one of which not engineered by me, and that's |
| 2:19.5 | the one we just heard, a friendly neighborhood atheist, those before Dan and I actually met. |
| 2:26.1 | The other albums we'll be hearing from are Beware of Dogma, Adrift on a Star, and Live at |
| 2:34.0 | Audio for the Arts, |
| 2:35.2 | and I'll be telling you about each of those as we get to them. |
| 2:39.0 | Next are two songs from A Drift on a Star, |
| 2:43.8 | and these are original compositions by Dan Barker, |
| 2:48.3 | although on one of them he had a co-writer. |
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