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🗓️ 5 May 2007

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Guest Ellory Schempp discusses how his complaints as a 16-year-old about devotional bible reading and prayer in his Pennsylvania public school turned into the landmark 1963 Supreme Court decision, Schempp v. Abington, ending such practices in the United States. The interview includes audio clips of his father, the late Ed Schempp, reminiscing about the lawsuit. The show includes a look at what's wrong with "The National Day of Prayer," music and Dan Barker's "Pagan Pulpit" on why nothing fails like prayer. The weekly show is hosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. (MP3, 44 min, 20.4 MB)

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0:00.0	It's time for Free Thought Radio, a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
0:13.1	www.
0:14.2	www.
0:15.2	ffrrf.org.
0:17.7	With your hosts, FFRF co-presidents, Dan Bark and Annie Laurie Gaylor with irreverent views, news, music, and interviews.
0:30.6	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:36.6	It's easy if you try
0:39.3	No hell below us
0:46.3	Above us only sky
0:52.3	Imagine all the people Above us only sky.
1:05.0	Imagine all the people living for today.
1:08.0	Hello, happy heretics. Are you godless, infidels and skeptics, heretics, agnostics, atheists, rationalism, anti-disestablishmentarians?
1:17.5	And a warm welcome to everyone else.
1:19.6	We invite you, regardless of your views, to stay tuned to Free Thought Radio, where we believe
1:25.9	that broadcasting should be iconoclasting.
1:29.8	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and we're broadcasting from Madison's Progressive Talk,
1:33.7	the Mike 92.1. We're streaming live and podcasting.
1:38.0	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:41.8	Free Thought Radio is brought to you by the Freedom from Religion Foundation, a national
1:47.4	non-faith-based initiative. Our 10,000-plus members are free thinkers. And if you look
1:53.8	that word up in the dictionary, free thinker is a single word and free thought, which means people
1:58.2	who use only reason for examining religious claims.
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