Guest: Saloma Furlong

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🗓️ 30 April 2012

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Dan and Annie Laurie report on their visit to the Global Atheist Conference in Melbourne, Australia, and Dan talks about his visit to the first atheist conference in the Philippines. Lots of U.S. state/church news to report, then an interview with Saloma Furlong about her book, Why I Left The Amish, followed by Australian songwriter Shelley Segal singing "Saved," from her new CD: An Atheist Album.

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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
0:47.3	living for today.
0:57.3	Good eye, Mites.
1:02.0	Welcome to Freethought Radio, and as you can probably tell from my little pseudo-accent,
1:07.8	I'm just back from Australia with Dan from the Global Atheist Conference in Melbourne,
1:10.7	sitting among 4,000 other non-believers. We believe it was the largest
1:12.4	free thought atheist event anywhere in history in the world. In terms of sit down, I'm not talking
1:19.9	about the Reason Valley, but in terms of a conference. And you didn't tell us your name yet. You just said
1:25.2	Godiamides. Yes. Well, I'm Annie Laurie Galar, and who are you, Dan? I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves. And we were honored to be on the program at the global atheist conference. They just called it GAC with Dawkins, Dennett Harris, a whole roster of people around the world and in Australia.
1:45.5	Ion Hirsi Ali.
1:46.5	Ian Hussi Ali.
1:47.2	There were people from 40 countries.
1:49.4	Most of them, probably about 2 or 3,000 were Australian.
1:53.1	We met many eager students and wonderful Australian folk.
1:58.3	And a lot of our members and a lot of listeners to Free Thought Radio were there.
2:01.6	And it was an incredible experience.
2:03.6	So congratulations to, it was put on by the Atheist Foundation of Australia.
2:09.6	Their second global meeting in two years.
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