Into the Unknown
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This Thanksgiving, we give thanks not to a deity, but to real people. After reporting state/church news and victories, we hear Tahira Clayton and the Godless Gospel group perform Dan Barker's song "Let's All Give Thanks." Then, we talk about the "fine-tuning" argument with astronomer Kelsey Johnson, author of the new book, Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:19.0 | 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. |
| 0:43.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Ah, ah, ah. |
| 0:56.0 | Array for the pumpkin pie. |
| 1:12.8 | Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and that music played by my go host, Dan, is over the river |
| 1:19.3 | and through the woods traditionally heard at Thanksgiving as people travel to be with family |
| 1:24.9 | and friends. |
| 1:26.4 | The lyricist of that song, Lydia Maria Child, was a famous freethinker. |
| 1:31.5 | She was a critic of organized religion. |
| 1:33.8 | She was a feminist, an author, an abolitionist, and reformer in the early 1800s. |
| 1:39.1 | And I'm Dan Barker, and happy Thanksgiving. |
| 1:42.8 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:49.2 | And this is the November 28th, 2024 episode of Free Thought Radio. Our producer is Leo Costello, |
| 1:56.4 | and our engineer who's with Audio for the arts is Tori Neels. |
| 2:02.5 | We're recording this show in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 2:07.8 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 2:14.5 | Freethought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 2:18.7 | ffrf.org, which is a national association that began in 78 nationally with just a couple |
| 2:27.6 | of us, and now we have over, well, we have about 40,000 current dues-paying members. |
| 2:34.5 | And we would love to have you become a member if you're not, if you are already, thank you, |
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