Freethought Poet Laureate

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We protest the imprisonment of a 13-yr-old Nigerian for blasphemy. We explain why we reported a priest, bishop and archbishop to the IRS for unconstitutional politicking. Then we honor the life and legacy of the distinguished freethinking humanist poet, scholar and author Philip Appleman who died this year at 94 years of age, by hearing his poignant interview on PBS' "Bill Moyers Journal."

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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.
0:27.6	No hell below us, above us only sky.
0:41.3	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:57.8	Welcome to Free That Radio.
1:01.9	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and happy Constitution Day.
1:11.8	It's the 233rd anniversary of the adoption of our entirely secular and godless constitution in the United States.
1:14.0	And I'm Dan Barker.
1:18.2	This is the September 17th, 2020 edition of Free Thought Radio.
1:20.9	Annie, Lori, and I are hosting this show,
1:24.6	not from our safer at home studio like the last, what, 25.
1:27.1	We had connection problems today. So we are down at Buzz Kemper's studio, Audio for the Arts,
1:32.2	safer at Studio, Audio for the Arts Studio,
1:36.0	which is down near the Wisconsin State Capitol.
1:38.8	MFETAT Radio is the weekly production
1:40.9	of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:45.7	a national nonprofit,
1:52.0	working to keep religion out of government and to educate the public about the views of non-believers.
1:58.3	And that includes our 32,000 current members of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
2:00.7	who are mainly atheists and agnostics.
2:06.9	And we would love to send you more information about FFRF, including a sample of our newspaper Free Thought today,
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