Guest: Darrell Barker Topic: Capitol Case in Olympia

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 26 September 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Freethought Radio will include timely updates on various state/church and freethought activism, including a segment about a state/church prayer controversy heating up in the Dallas, Texas area. In honor of the Sept. 26 anniversary of the birth of nontheist George Gershwin, the Foundation will air his irreverent classic, "It Ain't Necessarily So," and talk about other famous freethinkers born in the month of September. Washington State FFRF activist Darrell Barker will update listeners on the controversy over religion in the Capitol in Olympia, Wash., following a public hearing about it this week. (Note: announced guest Donald C Johanson, discoverer of Lucy, had to be rescheduled.)

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.8	Imagine there's no heaven
0:22.4	It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us
0:37.8	Above us only sky
0:41.8	Imagine all the people
0:48.3	Living for today.
1:02.8	Hello all you godless and fiddles and hellbound atheists and indifferent agnostics.
1:04.9	I'm Annie Laurie Gallo, and this is Free Thought Radio.
1:10.4	And hello, all you heretical hominids and pagan primates.
1:13.4	I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist,
1:18.8	and this is the weekend of September 26 and 27, 2009.
1:24.0	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting over many Air America stations around the country,
1:26.3	streaming from Air America.com on weekends.
1:30.9	And this show, Free Thought Radio, is produced by the National Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:36.2	We are the country's largest group of freethinkers, and that's a nice umbrella term that includes atheists and agnostics and other types of nonbelievers, none of the above.
1:41.5	We have two purposes.
1:43.0	We work to keep stayed in church separate because we think the best hope for the world is a secular government. And we also work to educate the public about the views of non-theists, those of us who call ourselves. You could call us the nuns in this country. And not spelled like N-U-N-U-N. No, it's spelled N-O-N-E-S. The nuns. And who's our guest today, Dan? Later in the show, we're going to talk with Donald C. Johansson. He's probably best known to the public as the person who discovered Lucy. And no, not I love Lucy, but Lucy, the famous primate fossil. And we'll talk
2:20.0	with him later in today's show. So Dan and I will be interviewing Donald C. Johansson, who's
2:24.8	an atheist scientist, promoter revolution, on the second half of Free Thought Radio.
2:29.2	Okay, but this week's been really busy for us at the Freedom from Religion Foundation. A lot
2:32.9	of activity, a lot of
2:34.3	staff members and workers hopping around doing a lot of things. And what's new this week, Annie Laurie?
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