Celebrating 20 years of Camp Quest
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Find out why the pious Attorney General of Oklahoma is on the warpath against FFRF, why vouchers - ouch - hurt our public schools, plus other recent FFRF activism, then meet Amanda Metskas, executive director of Camp Quest, which provides secular summer camps around the nation, and is celebrating its 20th anniversary. We honor the birth of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, an atheist, by playing some of his enchanting music, and, with a camping theme, play Dan Barker and Steve Benson’s parody of the Boy Scout Hiking Song, “Why BSA?” from FFRF’s CD, “Beware of Dogma.”
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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. |
| 0:25.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us. |
| 0:41.3 | Above us only sky imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today. |
| 0:58.8 | Our public schools are under attack by Governor Walker. |
| 1:03.7 | He wants to take money from our public schools and use it to support someone else's religion. |
| 1:07.6 | Your tax dollars shouldn't fund religiously segregated schools. |
| 1:11.9 | Nearly half of our state students would be eligible for vouchers under Walker's scheme. Vouchers are bad for children and bad for education. Help us stop Walker's brazen attack on |
| 1:18.3 | our public schools. Learn how at ffrf.org. This message paid for by the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:24.9 | Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, a co-founder and co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:31.1 | And that's one of FFRF's TV ads, warning about this unprecedented attack on Wisconsin public schools that may be coming next to your state. |
| 1:41.6 | More about that later. |
| 1:43.4 | First, welcome you happy campers hiking through life without |
| 1:47.2 | religion, atheists, agnostic, non-believers. My co-host, Dan Barker, who is tramping through |
| 1:53.7 | life without religion as well, is actually on a 10-day free thought road trip. He started off in |
| 1:59.6 | Washington, D.C. He's going on to Sacramento, San |
| 2:03.2 | Francisco, ending up in the state of Oregon, and he'll rejoin us next week, I'm sure, with lots |
| 2:08.5 | of anecdotes. This is the April 18th, 2015 edition of Free Thought Radio, broadcasting and streaming |
| 2:15.0 | from the mic, 92.1, progressive talk here in Madison, |
| 2:19.2 | Wisconsin, an I-Heart media station at 11 a.m. Central Saturdays, and you may also be |
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