Humanly Possible
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We announce a new lawsuit to stop Oklahoma officials from creating the nation's first religious public charter school. After hearing Rupert Brooke's poem "Heaven" (from the point of view of a fish) set to music by Dan Barker, Annie Laurie questions why so many Americans still believe in angels. Then British author Sarah Bakewell tells us about her new book Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.0 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:18.0 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.3 | Hello and happy August. I'm Annie Laurie Galore. |
| 0:55.1 | And I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:58.7 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:04.5 | And this is the August 3rd, 2023 episode. |
| 1:08.7 | Grant Blaschka, who's with a recording studio Audio for the Arts, |
| 1:13.4 | is our engineer in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:20.2 | Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:26.3 | And we're a national association of more than 40,000 members, |
| 1:31.9 | mostly Freethinkers, atheists, agnostic, skeptics, |
| 1:35.6 | and we also work to keep religion out of government. |
| 1:39.3 | And among our educational forays is Free Thought Radio, |
| 1:42.4 | a weekly production of FFRF. |
| 1:44.9 | And we also have many other, we have a newspaper, we have a Facebook live show. |
| 1:51.3 | In the fall, we're starting up again our TV show. |
| 1:54.3 | So there's a lot of educational opportunities. |
| 1:58.0 | But we also sue, and we're going to announce a very important lawsuit that |
| 2:02.7 | the Freedom for Religion Foundation filed this week that we're a part of in a moment. |
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