Guest: Patrick Elliott
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2013
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Today we celebrate Bertrand Russell's birthday by listening to his own voice commenting on Christianity and the afterlife. Hear Annie Laurie read Russell's "Ten Thoughts" alternative to the Ten Commandments, and Dan's song "Reincarnation" about the after-life. Then we talk with FFRF attorney Patrick Elliott about the successful removal of Ten Commandments posters in Oklahoma and Kentucky schools, and (it's that time of year) the ongoing problem with the distribution of Gideo bibles in public 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. |
| 0:19.0 | 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 Walt Walt sing Matilda, |
| 0:58.2 | you'll come the waltzing Matilda with me. |
| 1:04.1 | He sang as he shun that jump of him, he's tuck a bag. |
| 1:08.2 | You'll come the waltzing matilda with me. So that's a little shout-out-out-to-all-State Matilda with me. |
| 1:11.6 | So that's a little shout-out to our friends in Australia, but also because, did you know, that |
| 1:17.6 | Waltine Matilda, as unusual as this might sound, was Bertrand Russell's favorite tune. |
| 1:23.7 | At least that's what he wrote a little boy. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and today is the birthday of the famous agnostic and revered philosopher, Bertrand Fessel. |
| 1:36.0 | And welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:37.6 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:41.4 | This show, Free Thought Radio, is produced at and broadcast from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, |
| 1:47.8 | Wisconsin. This is our, as Annie Lurie said, May the 18th, 2013 show. We stream from this station. |
| 1:55.7 | We podcast, and we also broadcast in a number of other states around the country, including |
| 2:00.6 | New York, |
| 2:01.7 | in California, in Missouri, and in Michigan. |
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