Guest: Betty Brogaard, author of The Homemade Atheist

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 24 May 2010

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

First, a recap of the week's news regarding religious hypocrisy and state/church separation. Then an interview with author (and FFRF member) Betty Brogaard, whose new book, The Homemade Atheist, has just been released by Ulysses Press.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music and Interviews.
0:12.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:17.0	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 Above us only sky. Greetings, Godless ones, or as some of you prefer God God-Free Ones? I'm Annie Laurie Geller, and welcome to Free Thought Radio. Is that because godless has a connotation of evil? It's not really, but I like the word godless. That's the title of my book, so I like the word. Whatever you like, God-free, godless, we're all for it. I'm Dan Barker. I'm co-host of the show.
1:11.6	I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:13.6	This is the weekend of May 22, 2010.
1:17.8	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming from the Mike 92-1, Madison, Wisconsin.
1:22.3	And this show is also broadcasting in Atlanta, Anchorage, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Monterey, California, and podcasting through the entire universe.
1:30.4	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and we are the nation's largest national association of freethinkers, atheist agnostic, skeptics.
1:42.0	We have over 15,000 members nationwide and in Canada.
1:45.5	And growing. And growing. And we work also to keep state and church separate as the Constitution dictates.
1:52.8	Some very sad news. We want to say goodbye to David Randolph. He's been a featured guest on this show in the past, at least three times.
2:01.8	He died at age 95 on May the 12th in New York City.
2:06.2	You might recall that David was the amazing conductor of the St. Cecilia chorus, a secular
2:11.8	chorus dating back to the turn of the last century.
2:15.1	He was a firm believer that music has no religion.
2:18.2	Maybe the words the songs do, but the music itself can be used for religion, non-religion.
2:23.4	That's why he conducted a record number of Handel's Messiah.
2:26.9	He was a life member of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and one of the sponsors of the full-page ad
2:33.1	that the Freedom from Religion Foundation ran in the New York Times on May 6th, the ad about the National Day of Prayer.
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