Freethought in the Arts!
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2012
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Freethought in the Arts! After reporting on victories and positive developments in FFRF legal complaints in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and the U.S. Army, we talk about the many freethought connections in the movies, music, literature and poetry. For the second half of the show we play Bill Moyers' remarkable interview of freethought poet Philip Appleman that ran on PBS in early July.
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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. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and hello to all you irreverent ones. |
| 1:02.1 | I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, irreverent one, |
| 1:05.9 | your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. |
| 1:08.5 | This is July the 21st, 2012. This broadcast of Free Thought Radio |
| 1:14.9 | streams and broadcasts from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. Free Thought Radio is the |
| 1:23.5 | weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. We're also based here in Madison, |
| 1:29.0 | Wisconsin, and we have about 18,500 members and growing members in every state. And we have two purposes. |
| 1:37.4 | We serve as the nation's largest association of free thinkers, atheists, and agnostics, |
| 1:42.6 | and we work to keep religion out of government. |
| 1:45.9 | On the second half of today's show, we will hear Bill Moyers' memorable interview with the free thought poet, Philip Appelman. |
| 1:55.5 | Phil is an afterlife member, that's kind of an inside joke of ours. He's an afterlife member of the Freedom |
| 2:02.1 | from Religion Foundation. And last week, you might remember, we played just a snippet of that |
| 2:08.2 | interview that aired on PBS on July the 8th. And today we will play the entire interview. But first, |
| 2:17.0 | we have some FFRF victories to talk about. |
| 2:20.9 | You may remember that we reported last December on a great big foo-for-rah going on in Owwood City, |
| 2:27.7 | Pennsylvania. We had a complaint about a city nativity scene. It was on again, off again, on again, off again, off again. |
| 2:34.3 | And now it looks like it is an on again and hopefully a permanent victory. |
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