Creating Change
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
"Don't mourn — organize!" Those are fitting words by freethinking labor organizer Joe Hill for discouraged secularists after another right-wing justice has joined the Supreme Court. FFRF legal fellow Colin McNamara tells us about the educational letter he helped us send to Kentucky governor Matt Bevin, who has officially encouraged all children to "bring your Bible to school." Then we talk with Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association and author of the book Creating Change Through Humanism.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.2 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.2 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.8 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:32.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and thanks for tuning in Free Thought Radio, whether by broadcast or podcast. |
| 0:57.7 | It's comforting to be among friends and colleagues as we lick our collective wounds after the confirmation of a diehard Christian right extremist to the U.S. Supreme Court, now giving the religious right a 5-4 edge. |
| 1:13.7 | But we've got some good news this week, too. |
| 1:16.7 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:20.4 | This is the October 11th, 2018 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:24.9 | And producing and engineering the show today is Buzz Kemper. |
| 1:28.9 | He's in the control room of the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio. |
| 1:33.9 | And this studio is in the building of Freethought Hall, |
| 1:37.2 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:42.4 | And Free Thought Radio, of course, is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:48.8 | We are over 32,000 members in North America, mostly atheists, agnostic, skeptics, we like to joke. |
| 1:55.3 | We don't care what you call yourself. |
| 1:57.3 | We all disbelieve in the same gods. |
| 1:59.4 | And we work very diligently to keep |
| 2:02.2 | religion separate from government as is required under the U.S. secular constitution, and we |
| 2:08.7 | would love to have your support, especially after this last week, at ffrof.org. |
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