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Freethought Radio

Guest: Secular Studies expert Phil Zuckerman

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6578 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2011

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Reading, writing, arithmetic and religion in public schools? Not if FFRF has its way.  After updating you on legal skirmishes we'll catch up with secular studies expert Phil Zuckerman. He'll announce the very exciting updates in the first ever Secular Studies department. It's about time.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:14.7

Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.

0:18.8

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

0:47.3

living for today

0:53.3

Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gar, and this week is a particularly poignant time to take a moment to imagine no religion.

1:03.9

And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.

1:08.8

Welcome to the September 10th, 2011 broadcast of Free Thought Radio.

1:15.4

This is radio for the rest of us. Radio for the non-believers, the atheists, the agnostics,

1:21.4

the skeptics, the doubters in the United States of America. Free Thought Radio was broadcasting from Madison, Wisconsin.

1:30.2

It's the Mike 92.1.

1:33.7

Streams from the station and broadcasts on Saturday mornings,

1:37.9

but also broadcast in Atlanta, in Grand Rapids,

1:42.5

in Monterey, in New York City, and of course, podcasts.

1:46.0

Beat That Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which is the nation's largest national association of Freethinkers.

1:56.0

As Dan pointed out, that's atheist agnostic, skeptics. we don't call what you call, what you call yourself,

2:03.2

we all disbelieve in the same God as we like to joke. And we publish a newspaper Free Thought

2:08.2

today. We broadcast this radio program. And we also are a national state church watchdog.

2:14.3

We have taken more than 50 important lawsuits to keep religion out of government.

2:19.5

We have three staff attorneys working for free for you, the public, who have violations of the

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