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Freethought Radio

Guests: Webster Cook, student senator and non-eater of communion wafers and Sarah Braasch, FFRF Legal Intern

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Tune in to hear the inside story about the young Orlando student whom Catholics have accused of committing a "hate crime" for not eating a communion wafer! And listen to Sarah Braasch talk about how some public-funded senior centers are imposing prayer on senior citizens and why that is illegal.

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0:00.0

This is free thought radio on Air America with co-host Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,

0:16.8

irreverent views, news, music, and interviews.

0:20.1

Imagine there's no heaven.

0:26.1

It's easy if you try.

0:32.4

No hell below us.

0:41.3

Above us only sky imagine all the people

0:47.3

living for today.

1:01.3

Hello, all you non-churchgoers and non-trans substantiationists,

1:05.0

and all of you who think a communion wafer is just a cracker and really don't care to eat the body or drink the blood of a deity even metaphorically.

1:10.8

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is Free Thought Radio.

1:13.5

We're broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.

1:16.8

And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.

1:19.2

Did you say non-trans...

1:21.3

Don't ask me to repeat it.

1:22.8

Is that a word?

1:24.0

Non-transubstantiationists.

1:26.5

This program, a free thought radio, is produced by people who don't go to communion.

1:31.6

This is, we're going to the masses of those who don't go to mass.

1:36.6

We're trying to reach the unmasked Americans.

1:40.0

The Freedom for Religion Foundation produces the show, and we are mostly atheists and agnostics,

1:44.8

a few other religious skeptics thrown in there, who work to keep state and church separate,

1:50.1

and also to educate the public about the non-transubstantiationist, non-genuflectionists' views of the fastest growing segment of America,

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