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🗓️ 13 May 2006

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Guest: Mike Newdow, litigant of "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Music: Newdow's "Those Pledge of Allegiance Need Some Old Religion Blues." Freethinkers' Almanac: featuring Irving Berlin, the godless composer of "God Bless America." Music: Irving Berlin's 1923 "Pack Up Your Sins & Go to the Devil in Hades," Dan Barker, vocal & keyboard. Mother's Day segment, featuring Anne Gaylor, FFRF founder, and director of the Charitable Women's Medical Fund. Music in honor of Mother's Day: "Bread & Roses" feminist anthem, performed by Dan Barker. (MP3, 53 min, 24 MB)

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0:00.0	It's time to wake up.
0:05.0	Stay tuned for Free Thought Radio, the only weekly Free Thought Radio broadcast anywhere,
0:11.0	a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation featuring co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:17.0	Irreverent Views, News, Music music, and interviews. Imagine there's no heaven.
0:23.6	It's easy if you try. No hell below us Above us
0:41.3	Above us only sky
0:43.3	Imagine all the people
0:49.3	living for today
1:00.0	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:04.0	And I'm Dan Barker, and welcome to Free Thought Radio,
1:07.0	production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:11.1	Dan and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Dan and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:15.1	and our listeners may not know that Dan is a former fundamentalist minister,
1:19.8	who has now found respectability as an atheist,
1:23.2	and is author of Losing Faith in Faith from Preacher to Atheist.
1:26.9	I've got to say this is a lot more fun than preaching.
1:30.4	And Annie Laurie, you were raised as a third-generation non-believer,
1:36.2	and you are one of the original co-founders of the Freedom for Religion Foundation,
1:41.2	which started up as a state church watchdog group back in 1976, right? It went national
1:47.7	in 1978 in Madison. The Freedom for Religion Foundation is now the largest national
1:53.9	association of free thinkers in the country, and we're working very hard to keep state and church
1:59.9	separate. And when you say freeethinker, what does that mean?
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