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Freethought Radio

GUEST: KIRK MEFFORD

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6578 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2010

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Meet high-school science teacher Kirk Mefford, faculty advisor for the West High School chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and learn how hard it is to be an open atheist on campus. This week’s show also announces many state/church victories and complaints made by FFRF’s legal staff, and features a very funny excerpt of the “Door to Door Atheist” video made by Australian filmmaker John Safran.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.

0:13.0

Imagine there's no heaven.

0:18.0

It's easy if you try

0:22.6

No hell below us

0:33.6

Above us only sky

0:36.6

Imagine all the people

0:41.3

living for today Happy dog days of summer to all you dogma free people.

0:55.0

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and welcome to Free Thought Radio.

0:57.9

And I'm Dan Barker.

0:59.6

Barker, dog days.

1:01.2

Barker, get it?

1:03.9

We are your friendly neighborhood atheist, Annie Laurie and I.

1:08.4

And this is the weekend of July 31st, 2010.

1:14.5

Free Thought Radio, this show is broadcasting and streaming from the progressive talk,

1:18.6

the Mike 92-1 in Madison, Wisconsin, and also broadcasting in Atlanta, Anchorage, Grand Rapids, Monterey,

1:26.1

and podcasting everywhere throughout the universe.

1:29.5

Free Thought Radio is the, not the multi-universe, Dan?

1:32.2

The multiverse.

1:33.8

Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

1:39.1

And like our name implies, our members are personally free from religion, atheists, agnostics, skeptics of whatever pedigree,

1:47.0

and we work to keep religion out of government as is constitutionally required by our founding documents.

1:55.0

So that's why we are called the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

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