Guests: Irreverent Folksingers Lou and Peter Berryman!

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

After news--the huge coverage of FFRF's complaint about city prayers in Lodi, Calif., and the conviction of a parent for letting his daughter die of untreated diabetes for religious reasons--Wisconsin folksingers Lou and Peter Berryman perform in the studio. They will perform their favorite songs touching on religion, including the song that inspired FFRF to name its crime blotter, 'Black Collar Crime.' Tune in for a fun show!

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.8	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.1	It's easy if you try.
0:31.6	No hell below us.
0:54.4	Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today Hello all you free-thinking folk.
0:59.2	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and this is Free Thought Radio.
1:01.9	Your weekly antidote to the religious right or I should say the religious wrong.
1:06.9	Did you say free-thinking folk because we're going to have some folk musicians in the studio with us today?
1:11.4	Okay.
1:12.1	I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:15.3	Free Thought Radio is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:19.0	A lot of F-words today, huh?
1:20.4	Freethinking Folk, Freedom from Founds.
1:21.9	Don't say the F-word on the radio again.
1:23.5	Well, there's some nice F-words here.
1:25.6	The Freedom from Religion Foundation is the country's largest organization of free thinkers,
1:31.6	atheists and agnostics and skeptics and religious doubters who work to keep state and church separate,
1:36.6	which we'll talk about a little bit today and to educate the public about the views of us who are free from religion in this country.
1:42.9	We're really pleased that we will be joined today in our studio by our guests in person,
1:47.5	which is very rare for us.
1:48.7	It makes a nice change.
1:50.1	We have the Madison, Wisconsin, amazing musical duo, Lou and Peter Barryman,
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