Keep An Open Mind
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
FFRF's Director of Strategic Response Andrew Seidel has been watching the Senate confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court and concludes that he is "a wrecking ball aimed at the wall of separation between church and state." After listening to Dan Barker's song for children, "Keep An Open Mind," we talk with former Adventist pastor Ryan Bell, who is now National Organizing Manager for the Secular Student Alliance, promoting freethought on college and high-school campuses.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.3 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.3 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. |
| 0:47.9 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.1 | Welcome to Pete That Radio. |
| 1:00.2 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and we at the Freedom from Religion Foundation are here keeping the non-faith during this difficult week. |
| 1:02.0 | And I'm Dan Barker. This difficult week is the September 6th, 2018 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:08.7 | Our engineer who's producing the show in the Stephen Yule-friendly |
| 1:11.6 | atheist studio is Buzz Kemper. Our studio is in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom |
| 1:17.6 | from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. Free thought radio is produced by the Freedom |
| 1:22.5 | from Religion Foundation, which is the nation's largest association of freethink thinkers, atheists, and agnostics. |
| 1:29.6 | If you're a member, thank you. If you're not, please join us at ffrof.org, or we'd be |
| 1:34.6 | glad to send you a sample of our newspaper free thought today in a brochure about our many |
| 1:39.9 | significant achievements. Just ask at our website, ffrof.org. Summer is winding down, and it's back to school again. |
| 1:48.2 | Today we're going to talk about students, especially free-thinking students on campus, |
| 1:53.9 | who are forming clubs to promote atheism, humanism, skepticism, reason, and science on college and high school campuses. |
| 2:03.3 | And in the second half of today's show, we'll be talking with Ryan Bell, the national organizing |
| 2:07.7 | manager of the Secular Student Alliance, a national association of student groups around the |
| 2:13.7 | country that provides a non-religious alternative to the multitudinous religious clubs on |
| 2:19.3 | campus. But we'll be devoting this first segment of Free Thought Radio, of course, to the Kavanaugh |
| 2:24.9 | hearings, the confirmation hearings. And Andrew Seidel, FFRF's Director of Strategic Response, |
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