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Freethought Radio

Guest: Cosmos producer Ann Druyan

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Anne Druyan, creator/writer/producer of "Cosmos," talks about how the successful TV science series was made. IN THE NEWS: Iowa withdraws funds for a Christian park; Wisconsin judge allows gay marriage.

Transcript

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This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.

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Imagine there's no heaven.

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It's easy if you try.

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No hell below us

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Above us only sky

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Imagine all the people

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living for today I'm coming up, come up, I want for what to know, got to let it show.

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I'm coming up, I want the what you know, got to let it show.

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Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and here in Madison, Wisconsin, it's been pretty exciting to see all the gay couples coming out, lining up to be married outside City Hall and at the capital and

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everywhere, since Judge Barbara Crabbs ruling last Friday overturning Wisconsin's gay marriage

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ban. So congratulations are in order, and we free thinkers are also taking a cue from our

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LGBTQ brothers and sisters and coming out of the closet ourselves as atheists and agnostics.

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And I came out of the closet as an atheist non-believer in 1983. I'm Dan Barker, now known as your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. This is June 14th, 2014, show, a broadcast show of

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Free Thought Radio, which is produced at the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. You might also be

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listening to us broadcast in Monterey or in Ithaca, which is where our guest lives, and Dand, we'll be our guest later on the show, in Grand Rapids, in Columbia, Missouri, college station, Texas.

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We make the show available also as a podcast, so you can try to get Freethought Radio also on your own local station.

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If you have a station that broadcast progressive type shows, ask.

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We're not just preaching to the non-converted.

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Go out and we can help us counter the 24-7 din

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of the religious right domination of our airwaves.

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Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, which stands for Freedom from Religion Foundation.

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We have over 20,000 members in North America, and we work to educate the public about non-believers, non-theism, and to keep religion out of government.

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