Guests: Matthew Rothschild: 100th Anniversary of The Progressive & Andrew Cederhahl, "Pastafarian" & South Carolina Student A
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2009
⏱️ 38 minutes
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The hosts talk about FFRF's Good Friday state/church complaints, why Pat Boone doesn't like FFRF, and interview Matthew Rothschild, an atheist and editor of The Progressive Magazine, celebrating its 100th anniversary in May. Also a guest is student activist Andrew Cederdahl, the president of the Pastafarians at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, S.C. Andrew was recently interviewed for an upcoming article in The New York Times. The show also includes an April Freethought Almanac, about famous freethinkers born this month.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:19.9 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:26.2 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:32.0 | No hell below us. |
| 0:42.3 | Above us only sky Imagine all the people |
| 0:48.3 | living for today |
| 0:54.2 | Hello, born again, skeptics, and all of you who are born right the first time, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:03.7 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. |
| 1:07.6 | We're broadcasting and streaming from Air America Radio. And Free Thought Radio is produced by |
| 1:13.1 | the Freedom from Religion Foundation, the nation's largest group of non-believers, atheists, and |
| 1:18.1 | agnostics, working to keep state and church separate, and we'll talk about some of that today, |
| 1:22.1 | and also working to educate the public about the views of us who do not believe. |
| 1:27.1 | On previous shows, I've asked listeners to send in jokes, and they're coming in. |
| 1:31.9 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:33.2 | And here's one that came in a few days ago. |
| 1:36.4 | The ship was sinking fast, and the captain was very worried, and the captain yelled out to the people in the ship. |
| 1:43.2 | Does anybody here know how to pray? |
| 1:46.4 | And this one man raised his hand, and he said, I do. |
| 1:49.3 | And the captain said, great, because we are one life jacket short. |
| 1:56.0 | We'll be talking later in the show with a student, free thought activist from South Carolina, |
| 2:01.0 | Andrew Cedardahl, who is president of something called the Pastaferian. |
| 2:05.4 | Pastafarian, we'll hear a little more about that. It's a tongue-in-cheek group that, quote-unquote, |
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