Guests: Joe (Ojo) Taylor, Grammy Award winning Christian songwriter turned agnostic and Philip Appleman, Poet, Author (New book: Perfidious Proverbs)
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🗓️ 20 June 2011
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Guests: Joe (Ojo) Taylor, Grammy Award winning Christian songwriter turned agnostic and Philip Appleman, Poet, Author (New book: Perfidious Proverbs)
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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. |
| 0:18.8 | 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 Imagine all the people living for today Happy Summer Solstice. |
| 0:58.0 | Isn't it kind of nice that religion, at least, latter-day religion hasn't managed to turn the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, into just another sham religious celebration. |
| 1:09.9 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome to Free Thought |
| 1:12.2 | Radio, your weekly antidote to the religious right. And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood |
| 1:17.5 | atheist of the airwaves. Maybe the winter solst as being the darkest today is more appropriate |
| 1:22.7 | for religion. Free Thought Radio is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, a nationwide group based in Madison, Wisconsin, which works to keep religion out of government and is the largest association of like-minded atheists and agnostics in North America. |
| 1:39.5 | This is the weekend of June the 18th, 2011, and this program originates from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:50.6 | Free Thought Radio also streams from this station, and it airs in Atlanta, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in Monterey, in New York City. |
| 1:59.5 | If you're a very early riser, if you want to get up at 5 a.m. in New York City. |
| 2:03.6 | And, of course, the show podcasts all over the natural cosmos. |
| 2:08.3 | And on today's show, we have two fascinating guests, two different kinds of artists. |
| 2:14.1 | First, a Grammy Award-winning Christian songwriter and keyboard player who has become an agnostic, |
| 2:21.0 | and then later in the show, The Poet and the Darwin scholar and dedicated rationalist Philip |
| 2:27.8 | Appelman. Philip will join us in the second half of today show to talk about his new collection |
| 2:32.7 | called Prophidious Proverbs, a satirical look at the Bible. |
| 2:37.7 | And now we are delighted to have with us on the phone from Virginia, Joe Taylor, or |
| 2:42.6 | known as Ojo Taylor. He is a recording artist and producer and founder, principal, songwriter, |
| 2:53.6 | producer, keyboard player for the seminal rock group called Undercover. |
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