Freethinking Senator
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Jesus sign on city property, “In God We Trust” on patrol cars, Ten Commandments on high-school property, atheists barred from Boy Scouts, Tennessee freethought proclamation proposed. After talking about fish, large and small--Melville’s Moby Dick and Rupert Brooke’s Heaven--we interview Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers about his recent victory overturning capital punishment in that state.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:14.7 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:18.8 | 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 |
| 0:55.9 | Hello in Fiddles atheists Living for today. Hello, Infidels, Atheist and Gnastics, and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:01.0 | Radio for the rest of us, the rationalists. |
| 1:04.1 | I'm Annie Laurie Gellar. |
| 1:05.4 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:09.6 | This is the first day of August 2015. |
| 1:13.4 | Free Thought Radio is a weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:18.0 | Produced at the Mike 92.1, it's called Progressive Talk in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:24.8 | The broadcast of the show is on Saturdays at 11 a.m. Central and you can hear |
| 1:29.4 | the live stream through IHeart Radio. We also broadcast in Grand Rapids, in central Texas, |
| 1:36.1 | central Missouri, Milwaukee, New York State area, in Alberta, Canada, and on internet stations |
| 1:43.3 | such as Radio Monterey.com. The podcast of |
| 1:47.2 | Free Thought Radio was published a few days later, and this morning I checked, and as of this week, |
| 1:53.8 | we currently have had 5,99,427 podcast downloads. |
| 2:03.0 | So one of you who is listening to us on this episode through the podcast is the 6 millionth download of Free Thought Radio. |
| 2:11.9 | Well, and let's hope they listen to that download, Dan. |
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