Guest: State/Church Plaintiff Paul T. Rappel:
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2009
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Also: FFRF's New Bus Sign Campaign Unveiled!
The hosts unveil FFRF's new bus sign campaign, debuting in February in Madison, Wis.,(and going around the nation as funds permit), including memorable quotations by freethinkers, including Richard Dawkins. Interviewed will be Foundation member Paul T. Rappel, who will talk about why he decided to stand up and become a plaintiff in FFRF's new federal lawsuit challenging a 62-year nativity scene violation by Manitowoc County, Wis, an ultra-conservative spot.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:19.9 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:26.2 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.9 | No hell below us. |
| 0:42.0 | Above us only sky imagine all the people |
| 0:48.3 | living for today Hello all you godless infidels and hellbound atheists and humanist types who are just too moral to brag about it. |
| 1:04.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:05.8 | And I'm Dan Barker, and I'm not a hellbound atheist. |
| 1:09.8 | That's just a good joke. |
| 1:11.0 | I'm an earthbound atheist, is what I am. |
| 1:13.3 | I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:16.2 | Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America. |
| 1:20.1 | This show is produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:23.3 | not freedom of, but freedom from religion foundation, |
| 1:29.7 | a national organization, the country's largest organization of atheists and agnostics. |
| 1:32.6 | We like the word freethinker, working to keep state and church separate, and we'll talk about |
| 1:37.1 | a lot of that today, and also working to educate the public about us, our existence, the huge |
| 1:43.1 | and fastest growing segment of the population that is free |
| 1:46.0 | from religion. Our guest today is a brave plaintiff in a new state church lawsuit filed by the |
| 1:51.3 | Freedom from Religion Foundation in Manitouac County, Wisconsin, which is a very conservative |
| 1:56.5 | county. For over 62 years, they've been violating the law, allowing Catholic clubs to put up a |
| 2:02.7 | crush on the courthouse lawn every December since 1946. We'll be talking with one of our two brave |
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