Guest: Indre Viskontas
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2014
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
After hearing (and analyzing) the oral arguments in the Supreme Court “Hobby Lobby” case, challenging the reproductive mandate of the Affordable Health Care Act on religious grounds, we celebrate Tom Lehrer’s birthday by listening to some of his songs, as well as Eric Idle’s “The Galaxy.” Then we speak with a modern Renaissance Woman, Indre Viskontas, an opera singer, scientist (Ph.D. in neuroscience), science podcast host, co-star of “The Miracle Detective” TV series (which aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network), science/music educator, and atheist.
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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. |
| 0:20.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:26.1 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us. |
| 0:59.0 | Above us only sky imagine all the people living for today. Do whatever steps you want if you have cleared them with the pontiff. |
| 1:03.7 | Everybody say his own, Kyrieh, Lay is on doing that again right. |
| 1:08.1 | Hi, I'm Annie Larry Galar. |
| 1:10.3 | Welcome, April. |
| 1:11.7 | It's got to be an improvement over March. |
| 1:13.8 | And as you probably guessed, that's Tom Lair, a teaser of his classic Vatican rag, |
| 1:19.0 | and we're going to be ragging on the Vatican influence on our Supreme Court on today's show. |
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