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Freethought Radio

Guest: Matthew Chapman

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6578 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2011

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Hey Rick Perry! Get off your knees and get to work. After discussing FFRF v. Perry, FFRF's newest federal lawsuit, the hosts talk with Matthew Chapman, screenwriter and director of the new movie with an atheist protagonist, The Ledge. Chapman, an author, is the great-great grandson of Charles Darwin.

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0:00.0

This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,

0:14.7

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

0:46.3

living for today.

1:00.5

Hello, Godless and Fidel.

1:07.7

Our message this week to Texas Governor Rick Perry is get off your knees and get back to work for the public that elected you.

1:09.4

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.

1:13.6

Welcome to the July 23rd, 2011 broadcast of Free Thought Radio. And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves. I'm glad to be back

1:19.0

this week. Last week, I was shocked with an unexpected kidney stone passing, as you heard. And if

1:26.5

you've never passed a kidney stone, you don't know

1:28.9

how that hurts. It was about two days, but glory, hallelujah, the stone was moved, and now I'm back

1:35.6

to normal health. This show, Free Thought Radio, is the weekly production of the Freedom from

1:41.5

Religion Foundation. We are a state church watchdog,

1:46.4

also serving as the nation's largest association of Freethinkers.

1:51.8

That's a single word, free thinker,

1:53.8

that encompasses atheists, agnostics, other types of non-theists,

1:58.2

with currently more than 16,700 members nationwide and in Canada.

2:05.0

And that does make us the largest explicitly atheist agnostic organization in North America.

2:11.2

Free Thought Radio's broadcast is originating from the Mike, 92.1, Madison, Wisconsin.

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