Dear Oliver
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
A theocrat and a secularist duke it out in Louisiana. We ask whether Justice Samuel Alito should recuse himself. We report state/church complaints in Minnesota, California, Tennessee and Virginia. FFRF Legal Fellow Hirsh Joshi tells us how his letter to a Missouri school district successfully stopped prayers at graduation. Then we talk with neurology Professor Susan R. Barry about her new book, Dear Oliver: An Unexpected Friendship with Oliver Sacks.
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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. |
| 0:19.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 0:43.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:57.9 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:04.6 | I am Annie Laurie Gaylor, and if I may be excused a personal greeting to my co-host, Dan Barker. |
| 1:05.8 | Happy anniversary. |
| 1:07.9 | Happy anniversary, Annie Laurie. |
| 1:09.2 | 37 years. That makes us seem very old. And I'm Dan Barker, Annie |
| 1:13.8 | Lori and I, besides being married, are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:20.7 | This is the May 30th, 2024 episode of Free Thought Radio. Torrey Neals with Audio for the Arts is engineering today's show |
| 1:31.2 | in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall. Freethought Hall is the National Office |
| 1:38.0 | of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. And the Freedom from Religion Foundation is the producer of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:47.0 | And FFRF has two purposes, which are both very important, |
| 1:52.0 | to serve as a national association of like-minded people who are personally free from religion, |
| 1:58.0 | free thinkers, and to educate the public about that, |
| 2:03.0 | as well as to keep religion out of government and social policy. |
| 2:08.6 | And boy, is that an uphill battle these days. |
| 2:11.6 | So we are 40,000 strong, but we would love to be 50,000. |
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| 2:19.3 | FFRF.org. We'd be glad to send you a complimentary copy of our newspaper. Breathe out today, |
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