Imagine No Religion
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In the week of the birthday anniversary of John Lennon, our program examines the concept of "Imagine no religion" from several angles. Freethought Radio features Congress' lone "out" nonbeliever — U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, in a fascinating interview in which he talks about being an ex-Mormon, the inside story on congressional issues regarding separation of state and church, and why he founded the Congressional Freethought Caucus.
The show examines new developments in the rise of Hindu nationalism in India, during this birth week of Gandhi. FFRF Director of Communications Amit Pal, an expert in the phenomenon, is interviewed briefly by solo host Annie Laurie Gaylor.
In the news segment, Freethought Radio excerpts TV news coverage of several major FFRF victories, and recounts FFRF's newest national complaint over the judge in the Amber Guyger trial forcing a bible on her and instructing which passages to read. We play a poignant version of "Imagine," arranged by native American composer Brent Michael Davids on flute, with Lenape Tribe member and absentee host Dan Barker accompanying on piano. The show passages of music not only by Lennon, but by nonreligious classical composer Guiseppe Verdi, also born this week in history.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.7 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.2 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine all the feet Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.5 | And I'm living for today and tomorrow. |
| 0:54.6 | I'm Annie Laurie Galar. Hello, all you clusters of icons and other free thinkers. |
| 0:59.3 | Welcome to the October 3rd, 2019 edition of the Freedom from Religion Foundation's weekly radio show, Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:09.9 | You may have detected that my co-host, Ann Barker, is not here today. He with me is co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. He's in Colorado today. He spoke last night before the secular student group at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and tonight we'll be speaking to |
| 1:29.5 | students at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He'll be back next week. Buzz |
| 1:35.3 | Kemper is our trustee engineer today, and this is being produced in the Stephen Yule-friendly |
| 1:41.3 | atheist studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:50.2 | Free Thought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation here in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:57.6 | We work to uphold the constitutional principle of separation between government and religion so vital to any freedom in our world. |
| 2:01.9 | And we work to educate the public on matters relating to non-theism. |
| 2:06.7 | Our 30,000-plus membership in the United States is made up of individuals who, probably like |
| 2:13.5 | you, consider themselves personally free from religion. If you're already a member of |
| 2:20.8 | FFRF, thank you so much. If you're not, we'd be delighted to send you no obligation by mail or |
| 2:27.9 | email info, including the wonderful October issue of our newspaper Free Thought Today, which is edited by PJ Slinger, |
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