Guest: David Nicholls, President of Atheist Foundation of Australia

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The show will include an "Ask an Atheist" segment, comment on the controversy over the Pope and condoms, play a little Monty Python, and feature an interview with the head of Australia's atheist organization. Nicholls will talk about freethought Down Under, as well as the censorship of his group's proposed "Sleep in on Sundays" bus sign campaign.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.9	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.2	It's easy if you try.
0:31.8	No hell below us.
0:42.0	Above us only sky imagine all the people
0:48.1	living for today
0:54.2	Hello are you godless infidels.
0:58.8	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:00.1	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:03.5	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming from Air America.
1:07.7	And if you're a regular listener of the show, you know who produces Free Thought
1:11.5	Radio, the Freedom from Religion Foundation. We're a national organization based in Madison,
1:17.8	Wisconsin, of atheists and agnostics and a few other types of non-believers, or nuns, or
1:23.6	none of the above, which is right now the fastest growing segment of the American religious
1:28.9	landscape, if you want to call it a religious landscape. We work to educate the public about the
1:34.1	views of non-believers, and we work to keep state and church separate. Today we're going to talk
1:40.9	generally about the views of atheists and agnostics and have a little commentary on the Pope and condoms, and we'll be interviewing a guest who's in Australia.
1:50.3	It's our first interview with someone in Australia, so that should be fun.
1:54.4	South of the Equator.
1:56.0	His name is David Nichols, and David is president of the Atheist Foundation of Australia, Inc.
2:03.5	And we're going to talk with David not only about non-religion in Australia,
2:07.3	but about the fact that the group was barred from advertising on buses there.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Freedom From Religion Foundation, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Freedom From Religion Foundation and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.