Nothing Fails Like Prayer

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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IN THE NEWS: The Supreme Court wrongly expands government prayer; FFRF launches Out-Of-The-Closet billboards in northeast Ohio. Then we talk with "one of New York's 10 hottest comics," Leighann Lord, who is an atheist.

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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.
0:25.6	It's easy if you try.
0:31.6	No hell below us, above us only sky
0:41.3	imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today
0:57.0	all in the living for today. Oh, it don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing.
1:06.0	Hi, I'm Annie Larry Galar.
1:13.1	And why are we playing?
1:14.4	It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing.
1:17.0	Well, Justice Anthony Kennedy is the so-called swing vote on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1:22.7	And once again, he didn't swing.
1:25.5	He voted in lockstep with his ultra-conservative and other Roman Catholic friends, five of them on the Supreme Court, in a really, really bad decision, approving sectarian prayer before government meetings on Monday.
1:41.7	So this show invokes no supernatural authority. We're just using the
1:46.9	natural airwaves. And we welcome you to a 42-minute respite from a religion-drenched government,
1:55.3	and it's nice to be among free-thinking friends. Did you tell our listeners who you are?
1:59.6	Oh, I forgot.
2:01.2	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
2:02.5	And I'm Dan Barker.
2:04.1	I'm your co-host of Free Thought Radio,
2:06.2	sometimes called the Friendly Neighborhood Atheist of the Airwaves.
2:10.7	Yes, Justice Kennedy could learn a lesson from those Mills Brothers who opened our show today.
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