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Freethought Radio

God and Government

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6578 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

FFRF’s “Pray to Play” exposé gets national coverage, including FFRF attorney Andrew Seidel on MSNBC “Sports Matters.” Dan Barker was interviewed on NBC's “Today” show about the Jesus painting in a Kansas school that was taken down after FFRF complained. After talking with Viet Nam veteran and plaintiff Steve Trunk about the decades-long saga of the cross on Mt. Soledad, we interview Executive Director of Americans United For Separation of Church and State, Rev. Barry W. Lynn, about his new book: God and Government: Twenty-Five Years  of Fighting for Equality, Secularism, and Freedom of Conscience.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,

0:14.7

irreverent views, news, music, and interviews.

0:19.1

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

0:46.3

we got to fight the battle of church and state

0:50.3

church and state

0:52.3

church and state

0:53.3

we got to fight the battle of church and state over the wall will come a tumbling down.

1:00.8

And we do got to fight that battle of church and state.

1:04.3

Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

1:10.0

Welcome to Free Thought Radio, which is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Welcome to Freethought Radio, which is the

1:12.3

weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly

1:18.0

neighborhood atheists. This is the August 29, 2015 edition of Free Thought Radio, produced at the

1:25.5

Progressive Talk in Madison, Wisconsin.

1:27.9

And you're also co-president with me.

1:30.4

Yeah.

1:30.8

Well, you can't be a co-president without another half-co-president.

1:35.6

So our show originates from broadcast and is produced from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin.

1:45.0

It's called Progressive Talk,

1:46.2

and we originally air at 11 a.m. Central in Madison.

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