Guests: Prof. Mark Silk, Roger Nygard
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2010
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The show includes clips of Australia's new atheist prime minister. Guests include: Prof. Mark Silk, an expert on the topic of religion in America, who questions a new Gallup poll on church attendence, and lighthearted filmmaker Roger Nygard, whose new documentary takes on the "Nature of Existence."
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:18.0 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people |
| 0:41.3 | Living for the day Happy Independence Day weekend. This is a great weekend, by the way, to declare your independence from orthodoxy and religion. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm Annie Laurie. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:11.7 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. |
| 1:15.9 | This is the weekend of July 3rd and 4th, 2010. |
| 1:20.4 | Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming from the Progressive Talk, the Mike 92-1, Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:25.6 | And hello, those of you listening in Atlanta, Anchorage, Grand Rapids. |
| 1:31.2 | And we're, of course, podcasting to the universe, or is that multiverses? |
| 1:35.7 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, FFRF. |
| 1:43.8 | You can find us at FFRF.org. We are the country's largest |
| 1:48.0 | organization of free thinkers, and that's kind of an umbrella word that includes atheists and agnostics |
| 1:53.7 | and other types of religious skeptics and doubters. By the fourth is independence. As Annie Lurray said, |
| 1:59.6 | declare our independence from orthodoxy and from religion. And in fact, the founders of our country were proudly rebellious revolutionaries. They didn't want the king or the monarch or the Lord telling them what to think. So we think free thought is a very proud American tradition. |
| 2:19.0 | We'll be using this secular holiday weekend as an excuse to contemplate the nature of |
| 2:24.1 | existence. And speaking of the nature of existence, that's the title of a brand new film. We'll be |
| 2:30.5 | speaking today with the director of that film. His name is Roger Nygaard. |
| 2:35.0 | He's the filmmaker and the narrator. |
| 2:38.0 | The movie officially debuts this week, and it looks at a cross-section of beliefs about existence, about God, about morality, and in the process, |
| 2:49.0 | Nygaard interviewed some of our favorite freethinkers, |
| 2:52.3 | Julia Sweeney, Andrea, Richard Dawkins, |
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