Fighting for a Secular World
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2015
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Many victories to report this week, including the successful FFRF lawsuit removing the Ten Commandments from a Pennsylvania school, Florida municipal prayer stopped, HS football-field baptism declared improper, Jesus painting removed, secular HS club finally allowed, city money withdrawn from Florida churches, football prayer discontinued. After “welcoming” the visit of Pope Francis to America with our “Stay Away Pope Polka,” we talk with Carlos Mendoza of the Guatemalan Secular Humanists about being booed and booted from Congress while testifying against a bill to introduce mandatory bible reading in the schools.
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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 living for today. Hello, welcome to Free Thought Radio, |
| 0:57.7 | friends, neighbors, atheists, and agnostics. |
| 1:00.5 | I am Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:02.2 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:05.9 | This is September the 19th, 2015. |
| 1:09.8 | Free Thought Radio is produced at the Progressive Talk in Madison, Wisconsin, |
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| 2:07.7 | We used to be on there with Air America and Janesville, Wisconsin. |
| 2:13.0 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. I am an original |
| 2:19.7 | co-founder with my mother, Anne Gaylor, and we have grown from two of us to over 23,000 |
| 2:26.9 | members nationwide. And FFRF is a 501C3 educational group working to educate the public about non-theism and to educate the public about the need to |
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