Meeting of the Minds

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We review secular highs and lows of the week. FFRF Legal Fellow Karen Heineman tells us why the Catholic Church cannot run public charter schools in Oklahoma. Then we hear the entertaining conversation between actress/comedian Julia Sweeney and Dan Barker at FFRF's 2022 convention.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:09.3	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:13.7	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:19.9	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 people Above us only sky.
0:48.3	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:52.8	Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:03.4	Welcome to Free Thought Radio's first show of 2023, and here's wishing you a bright and secular New Year.
1:14.4	My co-host, the original friendly neighborhood atheist, Dan Barker, is actually in India, leaving me to Pilot Solo today.
1:20.3	And we are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which does produce this weekly radio show and podcast. Regular listeners know that FFRF works to buttress that
1:27.0	precious constitutional principle of separation
1:30.1	between religion and government, which is a more than full-time job for about 30 staffers
1:35.8	at FFRF. FFRF also serves as the nation's largest membership association for free thinkers.
1:43.5	That's individuals who are personally free
1:45.8	from religion, whether atheists, agnostics, rationalists, or humanists. We are at 39,400 members
1:54.3	as of December 31st and are so eager to climb to 40,000. So please sign up today at ffrof.org slash join or click the Ask for Info link at our
2:06.4	webpage and we'll send or email you a comp issue of our lively newspaper, Free Thought Today,
2:13.1	and other info so you can feel better acquainted.
2:16.0	And then you can join us.
2:19.4	This is the January 5th, 2023 episode of Free Thought Radio, and our engineer, my engineer today, is Grant Blashka
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