Cleaning Up After Dogma
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
"Cleaning up after dogma" is the theme of this week's program. After celebrating the births, lives and irreverence of the late Tom Petty and Ursula K. LeGuin, we'll play an outrageous clip of evangelist Pat Robertson, whitewashing Saudi Arabian abuses. We'll report on two nationally significant FFRF court challenges and other FFRF news. In honor of the upcoming referendum in next week's Irish election to remove blasphemy laws from the Irish Constitution, we'll listen to Dan Barker's song "Beware of Dogma." Then we'll talk with Michael Nugent and Jane Donnelly of Atheist Ireland about their work to remove the archaic and ridiculous blasphemy law from the Irish Constitution.
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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. |
| 0:13.5 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:23.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.0 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:51.9 | Welcome to Feed That Radio. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. And whether you're an atheist, agnostic, apotheist, secularist, humanist, or just open-minded, |
| 1:01.3 | feet thought radio is radio for you, radio for the rest of us. I'm flying solo today. My co-host, Dan Barker's on the road. |
| 1:10.4 | He was in Texas Tuesday night for a kickoff of an event for |
| 1:15.5 | FFRF's new chapter in Dallas. But today, as the show is being recorded, Dan's attending the |
| 1:23.9 | oral arguments for Barker v. Conroy in federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:30.2 | And this is his federal lawsuit to open up our nation's legislative chambers to atheists and free thinkers. |
| 1:37.3 | This is a nationally watched appeal of our federal court decision, of a federal court decision saying it's fine for the house chaplain, |
| 1:46.3 | a Roman Catholic priest who has evinced hostility to nonbelievers to censor atheists invocations. |
| 1:54.1 | And I'll talk a little bit more about that in a minute. |
| 1:55.9 | And I'm sure Dan will talk about it next week. |
| 1:58.5 | This is the October 18th, 2018 edition of Freethought Radio. Buzz |
| 2:03.1 | Kemper is engineering today in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, which is the |
| 2:09.5 | National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. FFRF is a North American membership organization |
| 2:20.3 | of over 32,000 atheist agnostics and Freethinkers, |
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