Guest: TV Reporter Stuart Watson
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2013
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Three presidents! This week we play President Obama reading Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address without saying “under God,” and then hear John F. Kennedy’s famous speech about keeping state and church separate. Then we talk with North Carolina investigative TV reporter Stuart Watson about pastors who abuse the IRS “Housing Allowance,” and have other “financial questions” in their ministries.
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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 Above us |
| 0:39.3 | Only sky |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:45.3 | living for today |
| 0:58.8 | The nation shall have a new birth of freedom. |
| 1:01.7 | Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Gallard. |
| 1:07.1 | Hello to all you listeners as godless as the original Gettysburg address. |
| 1:08.4 | And welcome to Freethought Radio. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. |
| 1:18.3 | This is the November 23rd, 2013 broadcast of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:23.7 | The show is broadcast from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:29.1 | We produced the show here, our engineer engineer Dave McCann, engineers and produces, |
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