Guest: Author Michael Austin

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2012

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

DEBUT! Hear the radio debut of "Poor Little Me," the new song written by Broadway composer Charles Strouse (Annie, Bye Bye Birdie) and Dan Barker. We read editorials in favor of FFRF's high-school cheerleader complaint that ran in the New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today. Then we talk with Michael Austin, author of the new book, That's Not What They Meant! Reclaiming The Founding Fathers From America's Right Wing.

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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. Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Galler, and hello to all of you rationalists and freethinkers.
1:02.1	There's a lot of us out there.
1:03.9	So if you feel alone, know that we're now probably one in five Americans identifying as non-religious.
1:10.7	And I'm Dan Barker, your co-host of Free Thought Radio. I'm your... probably one in five Americans identifying as non-religious.
1:14.0	And I'm Dan Barker, your co-host of Freethought Radio.
1:17.9	I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves.
1:22.4	This is the October 27th, 2012 broadcast of Freethought Radio.
1:27.6	We produce and broadcast from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:32.7	We also stream from this station, and we broadcast in a number of other cities, including Columbia, Missouri, Ithaca, New York, Monterey, Grand Rapids, and other places, and of course,
1:38.3	we podcast.
1:39.6	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the watchdog, State Church Watchdog Organization, FFRF,
1:46.5	the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which I co-founded with my mother.
1:50.8	There were two of us back in 1976, and we've grown to well over 19,000 members today,
1:57.7	members in every state and every province, and we're the largest atheist agnostic
2:03.3	membership organization in North America.
2:06.0	Working to keep state and church separate.
2:08.6	Today, October 27th is the birthday of Niccolo Paganini, who was born in 1782.
2:15.9	The virtuoso Italian violinist and composer lived a completely religion-free life.
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