Freethought Matters
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The first-ever Atheist Flag, erected by FFRF member Richard Gagnon, appeared this week in Somersworth, New Hampshire. We announce the debut broadcast of FFRF's new TV Show, "Freethought Matters," beginning Sunday on CBS in Madison, Wisconsin. FFRF attorney Ryan Jayne tells us about stopping a $5,000 city grant to a church in Sitka, Alaska. Then we speak with former Southern Baptist minister John Compere, who is now an atheist working with The Clergy Project, helping other preachers and priests to leave the ministry.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.3 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.3 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people Happy us only sky Happy New Year. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, welcoming you to the first free thought radio show of 2018. |
| 0:58.6 | And at the Freedom from Religion Foundation, we are gearing up for major advocacy on your behalf |
| 1:05.4 | and on behalf of the besieged wall of separation between church and state so that reason will prevail as much as it can |
| 1:14.9 | this year in our social policy and our supposedly secular government. |
| 1:20.3 | And I'm Dan Barker. This is the January 4th, 2018 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:27.1 | Buzz Kemper is engineering and producing the show in the Stephen |
| 1:30.9 | Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion |
| 1:36.9 | Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. Yes, emphasis on from. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of |
| 1:43.3 | FFRF and Freedom from Religion Foundation |
| 1:45.8 | has two purposes. We educate the public about non-theism, so we are over 31,000 strong |
| 1:52.0 | membership in North America, atheist agnostic skeptics, whatever you like to call yourself, |
| 1:57.4 | and we would love to have you join if you're not a member. And we also work, |
| 2:02.3 | of course, diligently to uphold that constitutional principle of separation between church and state |
| 2:08.5 | that is such a vital part of the U.S. Constitution. And we would love to spread that around the |
| 2:15.4 | world. We see the harm of theocracy everywhere. |
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