Guest: Peter Boghossian
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2013
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This week we announce FFRF's new lawsuit in state court, challenging official city prayer and City Chaplain in Pismo Beach, California. We hear Dan Savage's "Emperor Has No Clothes" award acceptance speech. Then we talk with Peter Boghossian, author of the new best-seller A Manual For Creating Atheists.
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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. |
| 0:25.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 0:40.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Welcome to radio as godless as our Constitution. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm Dan Barker, and my co-host, Annie Laurie, is not with me today. |
| 1:06.3 | She's actually buried in work and deadlines, |
| 1:09.2 | and she needs to prepare for a speech that she's giving at a university. |
| 1:12.6 | So she asked if I could do today's show by myself. |
| 1:15.6 | I'll try. |
| 1:16.6 | It won't be as good, but we'll have something to say. |
| 1:19.6 | Today is November the 9th, 2013. |
| 1:23.6 | The broadcast of Freethought Radio originates from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. |
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| 1:33.3 | We also broadcast in California. Hello, Hal Ginsburg, in New York, in Michigan, in Missouri, and in Texas. |
| 1:42.4 | And if you're listening to the podcast of this show, |
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| 1:49.6 | Free Thought Radio is produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:53.1 | We work to keep state and church separate |
| 1:54.8 | and to educate the public about the views of non-believers. |
| 2:00.5 | One non-believer who has a birthday this week is Aaron Copeland, the prolific American composer. |
| 2:08.1 | Aaron Copeland, who had to come out of two closets, by the way, was born on November the 14th, 1900. |
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