Forgotten Founder

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Guests: Margaret Downey and Gary Berton. We talk about the need to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Breyer with a proponent of state/church separation. After hearing Dan Barker's tribute to Thomas Paine, "The World Is My Country," we talk with two Paine experts: Margaret Downey, president of the new Thomas Paine Memorial Association, and Gary Berton, president of the Thomas Paine National Historical Association, about the drive to erect a statue to the "forgotten founder" in Washington DC.

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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.
0:14.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:17.0	It's easy if you try
0:23.6	No hell below us above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today.
0:52.3	Welcome to Free That Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and I should send a chilly hello because it's actually warmed up above zero here in Wisconsin.
1:02.0	And we had kind of a cute thing happen this morning. Some of our staff spotted robins in some of our juniper trees. And if you don't live in Wisconsin, you'll know that,
1:12.4	you may not know how amazing that is because here robins are considered the first sign of spring.
1:18.2	We do not get them when it's below zero, but apparently those juniper berries are enough
1:23.4	nutrition for them. And so we sent out a little literal tweet on FFF's Twitter so you can
1:29.1	see the Robbins if you want to go to our Twitter account. The Red Red Robin. I'm Dan Barker,
1:36.0	co-host of Free Thought Radio, and this is the January 27th, 2022 edition. Noah Gill Fillen,
1:43.2	again, he's with Audio for the Arts, is our engineer in the Stephen
1:46.9	Yule-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom
1:51.8	from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:55.4	And this is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, our radio show.
2:00.5	There's soon going to be a legal
2:01.4	podcast and we'll be giving some updates about that. That's pretty exciting. We do a lot of
2:07.2	education through radio, TV, video and so on, but we also work as a state church watchdog
2:14.9	and as a membership organization for free thinkers, those of us who are
2:19.7	personally free from religion as the U.S. government is supposed to be. And if you're a member,
2:25.3	thank you. And if not, we would love to send you information. We have a delightful January,
2:30.3	February issue of our newspaper Free Thought Today. And 40 plus years of activism to tell you about in a brochure.
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