Guest: Tara Ayres
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2012
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
During this Easter weekend, we discuss why the resurrection story is false. We play a tribute to the irreverent atheist songwriter Yip Harburg (born April 8, 1896) and then talk with Tara Ayres, artistic director of the Stage Q production of the docu-musical This Beautiful City, about gays, fundamentalists and atheists in Colorado Springs.
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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. |
| 0:19.0 | 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 |
| 0:41.0 | happy |
| 0:43.0 | all the people |
| 0:47.1 | living for today |
| 0:57.0 | Happy Bunny weekend! I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and I don't know about you, but I am celebrating the rebirth of spring |
| 1:03.0 | in the form of my daffodils and tulips and hyacinth and grape hyacinths and every few days, |
| 1:10.0 | something new in the garden. |
| 1:11.7 | That's what this season is really about, nothing supernatural. |
| 1:15.3 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. |
| 1:20.9 | This is, as Annie Laurie pointed out, Easter weekend. |
| 1:24.6 | It's the weekend of April 7th and 8th, 2012. Free Thought Radio is produced at and originates |
| 1:31.7 | from the Mike 92.1 here in Madison, Wisconsin, which is where the national headquarters of the |
| 1:38.9 | Freedom for Religion Foundation are. This show streams from the station, and it broadcasts in other cities around the country. |
| 1:46.0 | And a couple of days later, the show becomes a podcast available throughout the entire natural, not supernatural, but the entire natural universe. |
| 1:56.0 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which is now |
| 2:01.6 | got 18,000 plus members in every state, a national association of free thinkers, atheists and agnostics, |
| 2:08.6 | working to keep religion out of government. We sue, we litigate, we broadcast, we try to end |
| 2:16.6 | state church violations without going to court, of course. We publish books. We haveigate, we broadcast, we try to end state church violations without going to court, of course. |
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