Guest: Susan Jacoby
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2012
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
"Get Off Your Knees And Get To Work," a new song by Dan Barker, is debuted this week, especially in response to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback calling for a "Day of Repentance." Listen to some brave Florida commissioners objecting to prayer, and hear an NPR interview of FFRF member William Cox objecting to the Jesus statue in the Montana federal park. Then we talk with Susan Jacoby who has a new book out about Robert Ingersoll: The Great Agnostic.
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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. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Hello, heathens near and far. |
| 0:57.8 | I'm Annie Laurie Geller, and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:00.2 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. |
| 1:05.0 | This is the December 8th, 2012 broadcast of our show. |
| 1:10.4 | Free Thought Radio is produced and broadcast right here in Madison, |
| 1:14.3 | Wisconsin from the Mike 92.1, airs on Progressive Talk. Free Thought Radio streams from the station. |
| 1:22.8 | We podcast and broadcast in many other cities around the country, |
| 1:27.8 | including Grand Rapids in Monterey, California, |
| 1:31.5 | in Columbia, Missouri, Ithaca, New York, |
| 1:34.9 | and other places that we have yet to hear about |
| 1:38.0 | because some places where it is airing. |
| 1:40.6 | We thought radio is the weekly production |
| 1:42.6 | of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:44.8 | and you may remember that FFRF is a non-profit, non-profit, |
| 1:51.2 | spelled both ways, and we work to keep religion out of government, |
| 1:55.6 | and we are a membership organization for like-minded people who are personally free from religion. |
| 2:01.3 | And how many members do we have so far? |
| 2:03.3 | Over 19,000. |
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