Good Without God
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week's show was pre-recorded to air while Dan and Annie Laurie are in England for an international conference on blasphemy and freedom of expression. FFRF staff attorney Andrew Seidel joins co-presidents Barker and Gaylor to talk about the perennial question, "How Can We Be Good Without God?" during FFRF's "Ask an Atheist" Facebook Live broadcast, taking questions from the audience.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.0 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:18.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:51.3 | Hello, all you godless Freethinkers, and that is a compliment. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm Dan Barker. |
| 0:57.6 | This is Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:59.5 | Today's show is pre-recorded because Annie Laurie and I are scheduled to be in England for a conference on blasphemy and free expression. |
| 1:09.9 | Today is the July 20th, 2017 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:16.0 | Buzz Kemper is our engineer, producing the show in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in |
| 1:21.6 | Free Thought Hall, the national offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:27.7 | And our organization works to keep state and church separate. |
| 1:31.5 | We do that through a lot of legal activity. |
| 1:33.5 | We have, I lost count, eight or nine full-time attorneys plus this summer |
| 1:38.0 | seven or eight legal interns, so we have a very busy legal staff |
| 1:42.9 | working to keep our government secular. |
| 1:45.6 | And our second purpose is to educate the public about the views of non-believers, |
| 1:51.3 | atheist agnostic secular humanists, whatever you want to call ourselves. |
| 1:54.4 | We have almost 30,000 members. |
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