Promise of Dawn
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Happy Earth Day To You! We report an FFRF state/church victory dealing with HUD and Freedom of Information. FFRF Director of Strategic Response Andrew Seidel describes his groundbreaking article in the Northeastern University Law Review called "Bad History, Bad Opinions." After hearing the "comfort music" song "Promise of Dawn" by Dan Barker and Juanice Charmaine, we talk with poet, essayist and author Katha Pollitt, from her NYC "epicenter" apartment, about how anti-abortionists are exploiting the pandemic to promote their ideological agenda.
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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. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:41.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:47.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:56.4 | living for today I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:58.1 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio and happy belated Earth Day to you. |
| 1:03.6 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:07.0 | This is the April 23rd, 2020 edition of Free Thought Radio. Buzz Kemper is our engineer |
| 1:14.5 | today over in his own studio, Audio for the Arts, practicing social distancing here as we are |
| 1:21.6 | hosting from our home in a little makeshift studio that Buzz set up for us. Hello again, Buzz. Hello, Dan. Hello, Annie Laurie. So thanks for all the great work you're doing. It's like, it's kind of like magic. It's almost like a miracle, what we can do here. It is pretty strange. It's a four computer setup for me here, and I feel a little bit like I'm flying the USS Enterprise, but it's fun. |
| 1:45.0 | It isn't a miracle, Dan. It's perfectly understandable. |
| 1:48.0 | It's a secular. |
| 1:49.0 | It's a material miracle. |
| 1:52.0 | So Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 2:00.0 | we're a national state church watchdog, and we have about |
| 2:03.0 | 32,000 members in North America who are in the main not religious. So we also work to educate |
| 2:11.2 | the public about non-theism. And we would love to have your support at ffrof.org. |
| 2:17.4 | In a few minutes, we're going to talk your support at ffrof.org. |
| 2:33.6 | In a few minutes, we're going to talk with the Freedom from Religion Foundation attorney, our director of strategic response, Andrew Seidel, about his new law review article about how bad history makes bad law. |
| 2:39.0 | And in the second half of the show, we're going to talk with one of our favorite persons, Katha Pollitt. She is the poet, the author, and has been writing subject to debate |
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