Ghosts of the Orphanage
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We talk about abortion, book banning and the X-rated bible. We also talk with "God." After hearing the song "The Trinity" (words by Robert Ingersoll), we speak with investigative journalist Christine Kenneally about her chilling new book Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice.
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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. |
| 0:43.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:58.2 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:02.8 | Welcome to blasphemous broadcasting by Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:05.1 | And I'm Dan Barker, your co-host. |
| 1:10.0 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:15.1 | This is the May 18th, 2023 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:23.0 | Buzz Kemper in the first half of the show was engineering, and in the second half of the show, Stephanie Benichick. |
| 1:25.5 | They're both with audio for the arts. |
| 1:31.4 | They're engineering the show today in the Stephen OolOll-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:38.0 | Freethought Hall is the national office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:43.1 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:46.0 | which has, I think, a very clear purpose given in our name. We want freedom from religion in government, in social policy, and our membership |
| 1:51.4 | is, by the large, personally free from religion. And I would exclude from that Unitarian Universalists, |
| 1:59.9 | who are a creedless congregation, but most of our |
| 2:04.6 | members are atheists, agnosticists, and we're over 40,000. If you are a member, thank you. And if you're |
| 2:12.1 | not, we'd love to send you a copy of our newspaper by email or mail, a brochure about our 40-plus years of many, many achievements |
| 2:20.3 | keeping religion out of government, and you can go to ffrof.org to join or to ask for info. |
| 2:27.3 | And we have quite a show today, very interesting. In the second half, we're going to talk with the award-winning |
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