Bible Museum

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Tidings of great joy: the bipartisan bill to approve a Thomas Paine memorial in DC is likely to pass this session. After hearing irreverent holiday music by Roy Zimmerman and Tom Lehrer, we talk with professor Cavan Concannon, co-author with Jill Hicks-Keeton of the new book Does Scripture Speak For Itself? The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation.

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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
0:41.3	imagine all the people Happy first week of winter. I'm Dan Barker, and this is the December 22nd, 2022 episode of
1:07.3	Free Thought Radio. Annie Laurie is not with me today. You can probably tell I'm recovering from a heavy cold, and Annie Laurie is too, but her voice is not quite ready for radio. Well, maybe mine isn't either, but I'm going to plunge ahead as a solo act today. Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:33.3	Noah Gilfillon with Audio for the Arts is engineering today from Audio for the Arts,
1:40.3	and I'm doing my part from a home studio in Madison, Wisconsin. So my little
1:46.9	studio here is not controlled like Noah's is. And so you might hear some snow plows in the distance
1:53.2	during today's show. Hey Noah, how was the weather driving in? Did you make it okay? Yeah, it's not so
1:59.4	bad yet. anyway, yet.
2:02.1	Yeah.
2:02.7	But you might hear some snow plows over here, too,
2:05.3	because they're scraping by at the studio a lot, too.
2:08.6	Well, even with your control studio, you might hear them.
2:10.8	Well, so regular listeners of this show know that Free Thought Radio
2:15.7	is the weekly production of the freedom from
2:19.3	Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. We're a national organization of free thinkers. We like the
2:25.3	positive word free thinker. That's kind of an umbrella term to cover atheists, agnostics,
2:32.3	secular humanists, other non-religious types. We really don't care
2:37.9	what our members call ourselves. We have a saying that we all disbelieve in the same God.
2:44.0	So what we really care about, our main purpose, is keeping state and church separate.
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