Earth-alujah!
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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After reporting on state/church news around the country, FFRF's Senior Counsel Sam Grover tells us about the FFRF court victory against the Texas governor that took nine years to finalize! We hear the song "Because" by Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir. Then, we speak with "Reverend Billy" (William Talen), the "pastor" of the secular Earth Church in New York City who uses performance art to combat consumerism and save the planet.
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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 |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome to Pete That Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Galore. Instead of Hallelujah, let's say Earth Alluya. |
| 1:05.0 | And we'll learn more about that in a moment. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm Dan Barker. Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:14.4 | And this is the August 8th, 2024 episode of Free Thought Radio. Our producer is Leo Costello, and our |
| 1:22.5 | engineer is Tori Neals with Audio for the Arts. We're recording in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:32.0 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:38.3 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:42.4 | which is working very hard to defend our constitutional principle of separation between religion and government, |
| 1:49.0 | and also to represent the views of those of you who are personally free from religion. |
| 1:55.0 | We are the nation's largest association of atheists, agnostic, skeptics, Humanists, whatever you like to call yourselves. |
| 2:01.7 | We all disbelieve in the same gods, and we have 40,000 plus members, and if you are one, thank you. |
| 2:08.6 | And if not, we would love to send you complementary information. Just click the Ask for Info link at |
| 2:14.3 | FFRF.org. Yes, we all disbelieve in the same gods. That's funny. Instead of saying |
| 2:22.0 | hallelujah, how about saying earth alludea? In the second half of the show, we'll talk with the |
| 2:28.1 | Reverend Billy Tallinn, and that word reverend is in quotes, of Earth Church in New York City, a church that's |
| 2:38.0 | entirely secular, focusing on the needs of this world, not a supernatural world. |
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