In the News: Freethought Radio comments on international blasphemy prosecutions, UN committee evaluation of Vatican failings, and asks you to do your bit and buy Girl Scout cookies! (Antiabortionists have called boycott.) Birthdates honored: Charles Darwin, Philip Appleman and Phyllis Rose. Song: God’s Grandeur, words by Phil Appleman, music by Dan Barker. Guest: Patrick Elliott talks about a North Carolina state/church victory stopping a prayerful school coach that's grabbing national attention, and details shocking details his open records request uncovered about a religious voucher school in Milwaukee that closed its doors after receiving more than $2 million in tax dollars.
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Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2014
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:14.8 | irreverent views, news, music, and interviews. |
| 0:19.2 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people Living for today |
| 0:55.0 | There is grandeur in this view of life |
| 1:01.0 | that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity |
| 1:07.0 | from so simple a beginning |
| 1:10.0 | endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been |
| 1:15.6 | and are being evolved. |
| 1:19.6 | Happy birthday, Charles Darwin. |
| 1:21.6 | It's the anniversary of his birth in 1809 coming up this week. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and my co-host, Dan Barker's on the road, |
| 1:30.2 | a seven-day seven-event schedule in Idaho and California this upcoming week. So I'll actually |
| 1:35.1 | be solo hosting two weeks in a row. And I'd be a lonely atheist, except I know I'm in good |
| 1:40.8 | company, among the minimally 75 million human adults on this planet |
| 1:46.4 | who reject religion and agree with what Indonesian Alexander-Anne posted on Facebook a few years ago. |
| 1:54.3 | There is no God. |
| 1:56.2 | Alexander-Anne got sentenced to prison for saying there is no God. |
| 2:00.1 | He just got freed this week. So maybe |
| 2:03.0 | you're one in 75 million and this show is for you. Or maybe you're just curious or open-minded. |
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