Godless Citizens
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Attorney General Bill Barr thinks Americans are going to hell. Katherine Stewart and Caroline Fredrickson's New York Times column reveals how President Trump is being played by evangelicals. After hearing the freethought song "Experiment" by the atheist songwriter Cole Porter, we listen to author and professor Isaac Kramnick tell us how "God" got inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance, explaining the faulty legal reasoning that allows it to remain.
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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. |
| 0:13.7 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.9 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky imagine all the people living for today |
| 0:45.3 | yeah ah ah ah i'm mad the rest late hundred cents that we and maybe let's make |
| 0:56.0 | that we can meet |
| 1:02.0 | our new year resolution. Yeah. |
| 1:20.1 | Hi, that's Otis Redding and Carla Thomas promising a New Year's resolution. |
| 1:28.6 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and my New Year's resolution is to do everything I can to get out the secular vote in 2020. |
| 1:30.4 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:35.4 | This is our first show of the, not just the new year, but the new decade. |
| 1:40.8 | Is this going to be the roaring 20s again or maybe the boring 20s? |
| 1:42.0 | I'd settle for boring. |
| 1:42.9 | Boring 20s. |
| 1:45.8 | Well, this next year is going to be kind of interesting, isn't it? |
| 1:46.8 | Not going to be boring. |
| 1:48.2 | If we can get out the vote. |
| 1:53.3 | This is the January 2nd, 2020 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:57.9 | As usual, almost usual, Buzz Kemper is our engineer today. |
| 2:02.2 | He's producing this show in the Stephen Yule, friendly atheist studio, |
| 2:09.0 | in Freethad Hall, the national offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 2:13.5 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
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