Guest: HS senior activist Daniel Koster
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2013
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
It's Irving Berlin's 125th Birthday, and we celebrate the life of the nonbelieving songwriter by playing some of his famous music. Listen to George Carlin rail about religion, hear about FFRF's graduation prayer victory in Georgia, and learn about FFRF's May 2 full-page Washington Post ad challenging the National Day of Prayer. Then we talk with high-school senior Daniel Koster, who distributed freethought literature at Wekiva High School, Florida, protesting Bible distribution in 11 Orange County schools.
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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. |
| 0:18.8 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:41.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:47.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:56.0 | living for today yeah pack up your sins and go to the devil in hades |
| 1:03.0 | you'll meet the finest of gentlemen and the finest of ladies |
| 1:08.0 | they'd rather be down below than up above. |
| 1:11.6 | Cades is full of thousands of Joneses and Browns, a hula, hands, |
| 1:15.6 | Cohen's and Pardis. |
| 1:17.6 | You'll hear a heavenly tune that went to the devil because the jazz man. |
| 1:23.6 | They started picking it and put a trick in it, a jazzed kick in it. They've got a couple of |
| 1:30.1 | reformers in heaven, making them go to bed in 11. Pack up your sins and go to the devil, and you'll |
| 1:37.0 | never have to go to bed at all. |
| 1:39.5 | Hello, are you hellbound free thinkers? That's Ethel Merman singing, pack up your sins and go to the devil in Hades. |
| 1:47.8 | That's an Irving Berlin tune, and we'll talk about that in a minute. |
| 1:51.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and I don't believe in original sin or hell, but if there were such a place, as the song says, we'd be in great company. |
| 2:01.2 | I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves. |
| 2:06.4 | This is the May 11, 2013 broadcaster, Free Thought Radio. |
| 2:10.6 | The show broadcasts and streams from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 2:17.1 | Free Thought Radio podcasts, and we also broadcast in California and in New York and in the Grand |
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