Guest: Congressman Pete Stark
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
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🗓️ 21 February 2011
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Dan and Annie Laurie discuss religious extremism at the CPAC conference. Congressman Pete Stark, the only open nonbeliever in congress, discusses his resolution to honor Charles Darwin.
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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. |
| 0:25.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us. |
| 0:41.3 | Above us only sky Imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:59.2 | Ladies and gentlemen, America belongs to God. |
| 1:03.9 | Hello, you godless and fidel or happy heathen. |
| 1:07.6 | You just heard Rick Santorum saying America belongs to God. |
| 1:11.9 | That's a taste of the theocratic statements made last week at CPAC. |
| 1:18.0 | And we'll talk more about getting God out of politics and God out of government on today's show with an interview with the only openly non-religious member of Congress, Representative Pete Stark. |
| 1:24.1 | And I'm looking forward to that. I'm Annie Laurie Geller, and welcome to Free Thought |
| 1:27.5 | Radio. And I'm your co-host. I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. This is the |
| 1:32.7 | weekend of February 19th and 20th, 2011. Free Thought Radio is broadcasting, streaming from |
| 1:41.3 | Progressive Talk, the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:46.0 | We also air in several other cities around the nation, and of course we podcast everywhere. |
| 1:51.7 | This show, Free Thought Radio, is the weekly production of the National Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:58.3 | And as Annie Laurie said, we'll be talking on the second half of Free Thought Radio with member of Congress, Pete Stark. In part, we'll talk about his resolution calling on Congress to declare Darwin Day. And here's a little teaser of what we might be hearing from Congressman Stark. This is a clip from his, from |
| 2:18.7 | Stark's video acceptance of the Freedom from Religion Foundations, Emperor Has No Clothes Award |
| 2:25.0 | from last fall. Thankfully, we're moving in a direction where some feel that it's not |
| 2:33.3 | an active courage simply to state that you don't believe in God. |
| 2:38.1 | The work of the Freedom from Religion Foundation is helping to make this possible. |
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