Guests: Ron Reagan and Lodi activist Karen Buchanan

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Topics: "Unabashed atheist" Ron Reagan, host of Air America's Ron Reagan Show, is back for a new interview as a preview to his appearance at FFRF's 32nd annual FFRF convention in Seattle in November. Also featured: an interview with Foundation member Karen Buchanan, the original complainant in FFRF's request to the city council of Lodi, Calif., to drop prayers. That request has set off months of controversy and Karen talks about her dismay at the Council's 5-0 vote in October to continue "uncensored prayer."

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0:00.0	This is free thought radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Lori Gaylor. Imagine there's no heaven
0:22.4	It's easy if you try
0:28.7	No hell below us
0:35.5	Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today Hello, heathens and the heretics.
0:58.6	I'm Annie Laurie Gailor, and this is Free Thought Radio.
1:01.1	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:04.8	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting over many Air America stations
1:09.1	and streaming from Air America.com on weekends.
1:13.6	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which is a
1:18.6	national organization working to promote free thought, which means using reason when you form
1:24.6	your opinion about religion rather than faith or tradition or authority,
1:31.9	and working for a separation of church and state, and based in Madison, Wisconsin,
1:33.4	with members in every state.
1:39.9	And another joke came in, Philip Appelman, the poet, whom we have interviewed on our show a number of times,
1:41.4	sent this one.
1:45.2	Dad hit his thumb and yelled, oh, heck!
1:49.0	And the kid said, Daddy, what is heck?
1:50.8	And the daddy said,
1:54.5	heck is where you go if you don't believe in, gosh.
2:00.3	Coming up, Ron Reagan will talk with him about why he's such an unabashed atheist and from such an early
2:01.7	age, even while his father, Ronald Reagan, was a seated president. Ron Reagan never hesitated to be
2:07.6	honest about his rejection of religion. And the upcoming interview will preview Ron Reagan's
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