Authentic American Hero
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
President Trump says "we are a nation of believers," creationist Ken Ham calls FFRF "liars," and Bill O'Reilly (who has bashed FFRF) gets dumped from FOX News, oh my! FFRF staff attorney Andrew Seidel describes the escalating "war of words" between Ken Ham and FFRF over the Kentucky Ark Encounter. Then we talk with an authentic American hero, Ishmael Jaffree, FFRF's first "Freethinker of the Year" awardee, who won the 1985 Supreme Court Wallace v. Jaffree case stopping so-called "silent prayer" in public schools.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:17.0 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:55.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. Welcome to Freethought Radio and happy Earth Day week. |
| 1:03.9 | You do not need to worship a patriarchal father in the sky in order to revere Mother Earth. |
| 1:08.0 | Our metaphorical Mother Earth, who's actually a very real thing. The Earth is a real thing. |
| 1:10.7 | I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. This is |
| 1:12.3 | the April 20, 2017 edition of Free Thought Radio. Earth Day is April 22nd, of course. Our engineer |
| 1:21.8 | is Buzz Kemper, and he's also our announcer. You've heard his voice on all of our shows since the |
| 1:27.3 | very beginning. He's producing the show in all of our shows since the very beginning. |
| 1:28.6 | He's producing the show in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethad Hall, |
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| 1:55.0 | And thank you, and hello to all of you many thousands of podcast listeners. |
| 1:59.4 | The Freedom from Religion Foundation is the producer of |
| 2:03.1 | this weekly radio show and podcast. And FFRF, of course, is a North American membership group |
| 2:10.3 | for non-believers of whatever stripe, however you like to term yourself, whether you're an atheist |
| 2:16.2 | or just a non-conformist. And we work very |
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