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Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
After honoring the life of famed freethinking civil-rights leader Julian Bond and catching up on state/church news in Texas and New Mexico, we listen to part of John Oliver’s hilarious take-down of greedy churches and evangelists taking unfair advantage of lax IRS codes. Then we talk with FFRF attorney Andrew Seidel about FFRF’s letter of complaint to university athletic departments that hire evangelical chaplains who turn the football field into a mission field.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:14.7 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:19.1 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:25.3 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.1 | No hell below us |
| 0:41.0 | above us only sky imagine all the people |
| 0:47.2 | living for today. |
| 1:03.4 | Churches, America's favorite place for redemption and sixth favorite place for chicken. |
| 1:12.2 | That was comedian John Oliver, of course, and today we will talk about John Oliver's new church, among many other timely topics. |
| 1:13.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:14.7 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio, Radio for the rest of us, for nonbelievers and skeptics. |
| 1:20.1 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:23.0 | And in a few minutes, we'll hear a part of John Oliver's very funny, very powerful attack on the way churches and evangelists are profiting from the very lax IRS codes that are allowing them to operate with little accountability and many unfair advantages. |
| 1:40.6 | This is the August 22nd, 2015 Free Thought Radio, which is produced at the Progressive Talk in Madison, Wisconsin, broadcasting and streaming on the mic 92.1 Saturdays at 11 a.m. Central. |
| 1:53.8 | We also broadcast on WPRR in Grand Rapids, K-E-O-S in Central Texas, K-O-P-N in Missouri, WR-F-I in Central New York State, |
| 2:04.9 | CKXU in Alberta, Canada, WKKKV in Milwaukee, and on some internet stations such as |
| 2:11.5 | Radio Monterey.com. |
| 2:13.7 | If you're one of the many faithless, faithful podcast listeners, you are hearing the show a few days after the broadcast, of course. |
| 2:21.5 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 2:26.1 | FFRF works to keep religion out of government and to educate the public about non-theists. |
| 2:31.4 | So we have over 22,700, very close to 23,000 non-religious members across North America, |
| 2:39.7 | and we hope not someday, but today you will join us at fFRF.org. |
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