Days of the Theocracy

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2006

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Includes an interview with Lori Lipman Brown, the first fulltime secular lobbyist in D.C., working with the Secular Coalition for America, which the Freedom From Religion Foundation belongs to. Also a little commentary on religion in the news (Ken Lay conviction, Iraq war developments & the anniversary of the founding of the Gideon Society). Songs include Kristin Lems' "Days of the Theocracy," and Dan Barker's musical version of The War Prayer by Mark Twain, as well as "God-Less America." Freethinkers Almanac looks back at Anne Newport Royall, the nation's first lobbyist for state/church separation, working in the early 1800s. (MP3, 49 min, 22.2 MB)

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0:00.0	It's time to wake up.
0:05.6	Stay tuned for Free Thought Radio, the only weekly Free Thought Radio broadcast anywhere,
0:11.5	a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation featuring co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:18.2	irreverent views, news, Music, and Interviews.
0:21.6	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:24.6	It's easy if you try.
0:31.6	No hell below us, above us, above us only sky.
0:46.3	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:57.0	I am Dan Barker.
1:02.0	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor with the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:06.0	working to keep state and church separate.
1:09.0	We invite you to spend the next hour with Free Thought Radio,
1:12.5	the only weekly free thought broadcast in the nation. We're streaming live. Our programs
1:18.4	also can be heard at fFRF.org.
1:21.2	The Freedom from Religion Foundation is a national association of free thinkers, America's non-religious, atheists, agnostics, secularists,
1:32.3	infidels. The non-religious constitute at least 14% of the United States adult population.
1:40.3	Did you know that's more than 30 million Americans?
1:48.8	This radio program is a show for the rest of us.
2:02.7	And we believe there has never been a more critical time in our nation's history for Americans to speak out to defend the very precious constitutional principle of separation of Georgian state. Did you know the founders of the United States were the first not to claim they had a pipeline to some divinity? Our
2:08.9	founders were the first to adopt an entirely secular, godless constitution separating religion
2:15.1	from government and investing sovereignty not in some
2:19.3	unknowable deity, but in we, the people.
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