Life Driven Purpose
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Good news: FFRF reports many state/church victories around the country; federal Appeals Court won’t allow Milwaukee Catholic diocese to shield cemetery trust from bankruptcy to pay for victims of molesting priests. Bad news: Supreme Court temporarily sides with Catholic university to deny birth-control coverage; Wisconsin moves to expand school vouchers for mainly religious schools. After hearing the song “None of the Above,” Annie Laurie interviews Dan Barker about his new book, Life Driven Purpose: How an Atheist Finds Meaning.
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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. |
| 0:42.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and happy Pie Day to you. |
| 1:01.7 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:06.3 | And you're right, today is Pi Day. |
| 1:08.8 | This is the March 14th 2015 edition of free thought |
| 1:13.8 | radio and this year pie day is even more significant because today being 31415 which is the |
| 1:26.6 | the the value of pie obviously 3.1415. |
| 1:31.3 | So that's pretty cool. And that happens only once every 100 years. So treat yourself to some |
| 1:36.5 | pie today because for us non-believers, there is no pie in the sky. And in fact, there's no |
| 1:42.8 | pie in the sky for anyone. So everyone |
| 1:44.4 | should have some pie today. So eat your pie while you can. Yeah. Free Thought Radio broadcast |
| 1:49.4 | from the Mike 92.1, progressive talk in Madison, Wisconsin. And we also stream from the station |
| 1:57.9 | at 11 a.m. Saturday's Central Time through IHeart Radio. |
| 2:03.0 | Our show also airs on WPRR in Grand Rapids, K-E-O-S in Central Texas, KOPN, in Columbia, Missouri, WKKV in Milwaukee, |
| 2:15.3 | and in Central New York State, Watkins Glen and Ithaca, New York area, WRFI, up in Alberta, Canada, CKXU, and a number of internet stations such as Radio Monterey.com. |
| 2:29.3 | And of course, hello to all of you podcast listeners. |
| 2:32.3 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 2:38.3 | which is the nation's largest association of atheists and agnostics. |
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