Freedom FROM Religion
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
FFRF attorney Andrew Seidel tells us about our exciting new federal court victory stopping school-board prayer in California. We announce FFRF’s newest lawsuit challenging Texas Governor Gregg Abbot’s censorship of our “Bill of Rights” nativity display. After hearing Lena Horne sing the irreverent Yip Harburg song, “Ain’t It The Truth?”, we talk with Australian author Meg Wallace about hew new book, Freedom From Religion: Rethinking Article 18, suggesting how the U.N. “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” can be improved to strengthen secular government.
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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. |
| 0:23.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:28.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:46.3 | living for today Annie Gaylor is too stupid to be trusted with anything. |
| 1:02.6 | Hey, if you're going to insult me, get my name right. |
| 1:04.9 | It's a double name, Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome to Free Thought Radio, |
| 1:08.4 | and we'll tell you all about that insult on the second half of our show. |
| 1:13.6 | And hello, leap year, free thinkers, isn't it nice that February is nearly over? |
| 1:19.7 | Gilbert and Sullivan called February that beastly month, and we're thinking spring here at the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:27.1 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. This is the February 27th, 2016 edition of |
| 1:35.1 | Free Thought Radio, which first broadcasts and also streams on progressive talk, the Mike 92.1 |
| 1:43.5 | in Madison, Wisconsin, Saturdays at 11 a.m. Central, |
| 1:47.8 | and our show is rebroadcast later at midnight. |
| 1:51.4 | We now record Freethought Radio in the brand new Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:59.9 | just two blocks from the Wisconsin State Capitol, the |
| 2:02.5 | offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. So thank you, Stephen. And a shout out to our 15,000 |
| 2:09.9 | faithful, faithless podcast listeners around the world. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production |
| 2:15.6 | of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 2:18.1 | We are a non-profit 501C3, nonprofit in both senses of the word, working to keep religion |
| 2:23.8 | out of government and to promote free thought. |
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