Mike Christensen, Seattle "Imagine No Religion" Billboard Booster

Freethought Radio

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Since it's summertime and the living is easy, Freethought Radio will play an excerpt from Julia Sweeney's hilarious CD, "Letting Go of God." After a quick Theocracy Alert, Mike Christensen of Seattle will be interviewed. Mike, 28, is an FFRF Lifetime Member who will talk about why he is a freethinker and is sponsoring the current "Imagine No Religion" billboard in Seattle.

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0:00.0	This is free thought radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.8	Imagine there's no heaven
0:22.4	It's easy if you try
0:41.3	No hell below us above us above us only sky imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today Yeah
0:56.0	Summertime
1:04.0	And the living is easy.
1:13.6	Fish are jumping and the cotton is high Oh, your daddy's rich
1:34.2	And your ma is good looking
1:40.9	So hush, little baby, don't you cry?
1:54.5	It's summertime.
1:57.4	And the living is easy.
1:58.8	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
2:00.0	And I'm Dan Barker.
2:01.4	And this is Free Thought Radio.
2:03.3	We are broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.
2:06.1	And that was a too short excerpt of Carmen McCray from the Boy Meets Girl album singing summertime, written by those non-religious Gershwin brothers.
2:14.7	George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin were from a non-believing ethnic Jewish family.
2:20.1	They never once went to synagogue or believed or talked about religion.
2:24.8	This show, Free Thought Radio, is a production of non-believers, like the Gershwins and others,
2:30.4	the fastest growing segment of the American population by religious identification,
2:35.4	which is the non-religious.
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