Guest: Ron Williams

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2012

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week we hear reaction to FFRF's provocative "Quit The Church: Put Women's Rights Over Bishop's Wrongs" billboard. We talk about (yet) more governmental prayer violations, then we interview Ron Williams, the Australian singer/songwriter and father of six who challenged state-paid chaplains in public schools, and this month won a victorious decision from the High Court.

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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.
0:41.3	Above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today.
1:01.3	Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and hello, godless American, and I'm talking to you.
1:06.8	The Fourth of July weekend is coming up, and as all non-believing heretics know,
1:11.7	there can be no true religious liberty without the freedom to dissent.
1:19.4	And that actually is a quote from Annie Laurie's mother, Anne Nicolgaylor, who was the founder of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:28.5	I'm Dan Barker, and no, Annie Laurie did not say God bless America for this week that we celebrate the founding of our country.
1:32.0	She said, Godless America.
1:35.9	I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, Atheist of the Airwaves,
1:40.8	and Free Thought Radio is coming to you from the Mike 92.1, the progressive talk in Madison, Wisconsin. We are broadcasting this weekend of June 30th,
1:49.0	2012 here in Madison, and in other cities who pick up the show, and the podcast of Free Thought
1:55.7	Radio becomes available a few days later. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and FFRF has two purposes.
2:05.6	You regular listeners know that.
2:08.6	We work as a major state church watchdog to keep religion out of government.
2:14.6	We have four staff attorneys and 10 lawsuits ongoing, more than
2:19.5	about 60 over the course of 35 years or so. And we are also the nation's largest association
2:27.3	of atheists and agnostic. And Dan, you like all of this definition question. What's the
2:32.5	difference between an atheist and agnostic? People ask us that a lot. What's the difference between an atheist and agnostic?
2:34.6	People ask us that a lot. What's the difference? Well, very simply, an atheist is a person who
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