Freedom of Conscience

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Clarence Darrow statue (paid for by FFRF) is unveiled in Dayton, Tennessee, at the site of the 1925 Scopes Trial. FFRF attorney Sam Grover testifies before a Wisconsin congressional committee opposing a bill to limit abortion training in Wisconsin schools. After hearing Rupert Brooke's irreverent poem "Heaven," set to music by Dan Barker, we talk with Egyptian-American ex-Muslim Noura Embabi, president of Muslimish, which fosters dialogue between current and former Muslims.

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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.
0:13.5	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:20.0	It's easy if you try
0:23.6	No hell below us
0:29.6	Above us only sky
0:36.6	Imagine all the people Above us only sky. Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gayar with the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
0:56.6	Happy August.
0:58.3	And welcome to August atheists, agnostic, psychonoclasts, secularists, and an especially warm greeting to those of you who are ex-Muslim who have left religion.
1:12.3	More about that in a minute.
1:20.2	And I'm Dan Barker. This is the August 3rd, 2017 edition of Freethought Radio, produced in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion
1:26.7	Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:29.1	Our engineer is Buzz Kemper. The show is being broadcast in Madison and in Janesville, Wisconsin,
1:35.6	which is just south of us here in Madison. And we're also being broadcast in the Ithaca, New York
1:43.6	area, and in Vermont, and in
1:45.9	New Hampshire, and in Columbia, Missouri. And hello to listeners over in College Station, Texas.
1:52.5	And hello to all of you listening via radio. And thank you to those stations for airing the radio
1:59.5	for the rest of us. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
2:05.6	And FFRF is having our 40th annual convention next month,
2:12.6	and it's the 40th year next year.
2:16.6	We had a convention before we went national,
2:18.4	but we really hope to see you at that national convention.
2:21.5	And we've been working for 40 years, as the American Spectator said,
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