Guest: HS activist Gage Pulliam
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2013
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Nonbelievers in the news! Tornado victim interviewed on CNN says she is an atheist, while Ricky Gervais sends money, not prayers, to Oklahoma relief. An Arizona representative delivers a secular humanist invocation before the assembly, and an Australian TV host delivers an "Aussie" version of the Ten Commandments. Then we talk with high-school activist Gage Pulliam, whose complaint to FFRF resulted in the Muldrow, Oklahoma, schools removing hundreds of Ten Commandments plaques from the walls of public classrooms.
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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 |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:56.3 | I'm actually an atheist. |
| 0:57.8 | Oh, you are all right. |
| 1:01.0 | Actually, I'm an atheist, too. |
| 1:02.9 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is radio for the rest of us, the one in five adults, |
| 1:08.5 | one in three young persons here in the United States, who is non-religious. |
| 1:12.6 | And me too. I'm one of those friendly neighborhood atheists. I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:17.5 | This is May the 25th, 2013. Prethought Radio is produced at, and we broadcast and stream from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. We originate here in Wisconsin, |
| 1:31.3 | but this show also broadcasts in California, in Missouri, in Michigan, and in the Ithaca, New York |
| 1:39.2 | area. And hello to all you podcasters. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:47.3 | FFRF is the largest membership association of Freethinkers in North America. |
| 1:52.8 | That means atheists, agnostics, humanists, and so on, working as a state church watchdog. |
| 1:58.1 | And today we have a lot of news to comment on from this past week. And then we'll talk with the 16-year-old state church watchdog. And today we have a lot of news to comment on from this past week. |
| 2:02.9 | And then we'll talk with the 16-year-old state church activist from the state of Oklahoma, |
| 2:07.7 | Gage Pulliam, whose actions coordinated with the Freedom from Religion Foundation resulted in the |
| 2:13.2 | removal of what seemed to be hundreds of Ten Commandments plaques inappropriately displayed in every |
| 2:19.6 | classroom in Moldro, Oklahoma. And that victory happened in this past month. And we spoke with |
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