Matthew LaClair

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2007

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Freethought Radio moves to an afternoon slot, 1-2 p.m. every Saturday. The show's guest is a 16-year-old state/church student activist, Matthew LaClair. Matthew has made the national news for protesting his history teacher's proselytizing remarks in an ongoing violation in his public school in Kearny, N.J. Matthew will be named "Thomas Jefferson Freethought Student Activist" at the 2007 FFRF convention in Madison next fall, and will receive a $1,000 scholarship for his activism, which has cost him friends and support in his community. The show includes some brief news updates, and an ode to Darwin's Day and Molly Ivins. The weekly radio broadcast is cohosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, who jointly direct the Freedom From Religion Foundation. (MP3, 49 min, 22.3 MB)

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0:00.0	It's time to wake up. Stay tuned for Free Thought Radio, the only weekly Free Thought Radio broadcast anywhere, a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation featuring co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:17.4	Irreverent Views, News, Music,, and interviews. Imagine there's no heaven.
0:24.6	It's easy if you try. A warm below us, above us, above us only sky.
0:46.9	Imagine all the people living for today. A warm welcome to all you hellbound atheists, agnostics, heathens, infidels, and everyone else listening today.
1:03.6	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor for Free Thought Radio.
1:06.3	Thank you for tuning into our new time.
1:09.3	Free Thought Radio will now broadcast from Madison's Progressive
1:12.6	Talk, the Mike 92.1, every Saturday afternoon from 1 to 2 p.m. This gives you a chance to catch up
1:20.4	on your sleep, and we hope this time will work for you. Well, for all of my musician friends,
1:26.0	there won't be any difference at all. So good morning to all my musician friends in Madison. I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. Free Thought Radio is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. The foundation is the nation's largest association of free thinkers.
1:52.3	We are atheists and agnostics, and we work to keep state and church separate.
2:05.3	Did you happen to notice Dick Cavett's New York Times op-ed piece last week when he quoted Woody Allen on atheism. Dick Cavett wrote,
2:14.6	I guess Woody Allen has, as so often had, the ultimate comic word on the subject. And then he quotes Woody Allen, saying, you cannot prove the non-existence of God.
2:20.0	You just have to take it on faith.
2:23.3	And it's nice to hear from Dick Cavett again after all these years.
2:26.3	And our guest today, however, doesn't take anything on faith.
2:30.5	We are delighted to announce that we'll be talking in a bit with a 16-year-old who has gumption.
2:36.0	You may have read the New York Times coverage and the war stories that ran about this New Jersey high school junior,
2:42.5	who very dramatically exposed the fact that his American history teacher was actually more of a preacher than a teacher.
2:50.0	In the next segment, we'll be talking with Matthew
2:52.3	LeClair about exactly what happened to him at his high school class. And the student had the
2:59.7	moxie to tape his teacher saying things like only Christians could go to heaven. The rest of us
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