Guests: The Amazing James Randi & Dad Complainant in FFRF's Newest Religion-in-School Court Challenge

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Freethought Radio will discuss the Freedom From Religion Foundation's newest legal challenge over school subsidy of the Child Evangelism Fellowship in a Wisconsin school, and will talk with the dad who originally lodged the complaint. (He is not being identified to protect his children.) Sound clips from John McCain and his pastor supporter relating to their views against state/church separation will be featured. And the show will conclude with an interview of internationally-known magician and exposer of hoax, the atheist and author, James Randi!

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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.
0:32.6	No hell below us.
0:39.3	Above us only sky
0:41.3	Imagine all you Godless Living for today I'm
0:56.0	Greetings all you godless non-idolitors.
0:59.6	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:01.6	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.
1:05.0	And we hope someday you will join us.
1:07.7	I'm Dan Barker.
1:09.2	I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:12.5	This program is produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents. We're the nation's largest
1:18.0	association of non-believers, atheists and agnostics, working to keep state and church separate.
1:24.7	We have two guests today. We're pleased to say later in the show we'll be
1:27.7	talking with the amazing James Randy, magician extraordinaire, author of such books as Flim Flam.
1:34.1	He's a stalwart non-believer. But first, let's go right to our first guest, a man who lives
1:39.3	in the city called Ryo, is spelled RIO, Ryo, Ryo Wisconsin, whose complaint to us about a child evangelism group
1:47.7	meeting for free in the RIO public schools has led to the Freedom for Religion Foundation's
1:54.1	newest lawsuit. We filed it in late April in county court here in Dane County, Wisconsin.
2:00.7	And we have a father with children in the Ryo Public Schools on the telephone with us,
2:05.7	and we're going to refer to you as Robert, that's pseudonym, to protect your children.
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