Nontheistic Invocations
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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The Texas "JESUS" sign finally comes down. Coach-led prayer is stopped in Pennsylvania and Georgia. We talk with Shiv Shah, one of the winners of FFRF's High-School Essay contest. Then we are joined by FFRF Legal Director Rebecca Markert as we interview David Williamson, the lead plaintiff in the victorious federal appeals court decision handed down this week declaring that the Brevard County, Florida, Commissioners violated the U.S. Constitution by barring nontheistic invocations.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | 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. |
| 0:54.4 | Greetings, godless ones, and and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:00.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-founder of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:03.9 | which is producing this weekly radio show and podcast. And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:05.8 | I'm co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation with Annie Laurie Gaylor. This is the July 11, 2019 edition |
| 1:15.0 | of Free Thought Radio. And Buzz Kemper, our engineer, is training Grant. I didn't get Grant's |
| 1:22.2 | last name. I'm sorry, but he's training a new engineer in here to be able to take over when he |
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| 1:34.2 | And they're both sitting there in the Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio control room in Freethought Hall, |
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