Conductor David Randolph
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2008
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Distinguished chorale and orchestral conductor David Randolph, an atheist and the oldest person, at nearly 94, to conduct at Carnegie Hall, will be the guest, talking about how music has no religion, among other topics. The co-hosts will play an excerpt from The Stephen Colbert Show's coverage of FFRF's Washington Capitol Winter Solstice display, and discuss FFRF's just-filed lawsuit over an unlawful creche on courthouse grounds in Manitowoc, Wis., including lively media coverage clips.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:19.6 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:26.0 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us. |
| 0:41.3 | Above us only sky Imagine |
| 0:45.3 | all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living |
| 0:51.3 | for today. |
| 0:58.9 | Merry winter solstice. |
| 1:00.4 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore. |
| 1:04.1 | Mary Winter solstice, and Merry actual New Year, |
| 1:07.5 | because the Winter Solstice is the actual astronomical new year. |
| 1:08.8 | So happy real New Year. |
| 1:09.8 | I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. |
| 1:28.3 | We want to welcome you to Free Thought Radio, broadcasting and streaming live from Air America. Free Thought Radio is dedicated to news and views of the growing segment of the population that is non-religious. And we're also dedicated to defending the constitutional separation between church and state. And we, who are we? We are the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:34.9 | now more than 13,000 members around the continent. Most of us call ourselves atheists and agnostics, |
| 1:41.5 | and a few other names that we call ourselves but what we work |
| 1:45.0 | for is we don't call names well we call ourselves deists or born again born again pagans or |
| 1:52.9 | we don't care what we call ourselves what we do care about is keeping state and church separate so we |
| 1:57.9 | educate the public about the views of those of us who don't believe, |
| 2:01.8 | who choose none of the above, and we work really hard to keep religion and government separate. |
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