Guest: Dan Courtney

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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We’ll celebrate the 166th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention called by agnostic Elizabeth Cady Stanton, then talk with newsmaker and freethought activist Dan Courtney, a Lifetime FFRF Member, who just became the first atheist to give an invocation in Greece, N.Y. — site of the governmental prayer dispute at the center of this spring’s Supreme Court ruling.

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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 Imagine all the people living for today.
1:00.9	Hello, heathens and infidels, and welcome back to Free Thought Radio.
1:07.8	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and my co-host, Dan Barker, is not with me today because he's in Guatemala.
1:13.6	He spoke Thursday at the inaugural event of the Guatemalan humanists. So who would have thought in a country that is as religious as Guatemala that there would be a nascent group of non-believers?
1:21.6	And he spoke Thursday, he's doing a little sight scene today before flying back tomorrow.
1:31.2	And next week, Dan will tell us about his experiences there with Central American Freethinkers at the Teatro Lux in downtown Guatemala City.
1:38.8	Now, today is the July 19th, 2014 broadcast of Free Thought Radio.
1:47.5	Free Thought Radio is produced first as a radio broadcast from the Mike 92.1, WXXM, here in Madison, Wisconsin, headquarters of the Freedom from Religion
1:55.3	Foundation. We stream from this station, and we also broadcast in Monterey Salinas, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Columbia, Missouri, Grand Station, Byron, Brian, Texas, Ithaca, New York, Geneva Community Radio, New York, Watkins Glen, New York, WRFI, and on HD Radio, WKKKV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2:18.3	Then you can find Free Thought Radio as a podcast.
2:22.2	Welcome all listeners.
2:24.6	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF,
2:28.1	the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
2:29.7	and we work to keep religion out of government
2:31.4	and to represent the views of the 20% of the U.S.
2:35.6	population today that is non-religious. And we have breached the 21,000 mark in our own
2:42.6	membership. Today, my guest, who will join me on the second half of Free Thought Radio, will be
2:50.0	Dan Courtney.
2:51.6	And you may have been reading about Dan in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times.
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