Reason prevails in Santa Monica and Wis. atheists win big! Guests: Damon Vix & Chris Calvey
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2012
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The winter solstice season is approaching, and with it comes holiday complaints. Listen to Damon Vix (photo) talk about his victory this week when a federal judge ruled that the city of Santa Monica, Calif., is free to discontinue nativity scenes on public property, after 58 years of Christian domination in Palisades Park. We also talk with Ph.D student Chris Calvey, head of the Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics (AHA!) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who were just awarded almost $70,000 in student-segregated fees to compete with religious groups on campus.
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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, above us only sky. |
| 0:38.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Do the atheists in Wisconsin realize they're going to hell? |
| 0:59.0 | Well, as John Lennon said, there's no how below us. |
| 1:04.0 | Hello, are you goddamned atheists in agnostics? |
| 1:08.0 | Mark Twain would have told Bill O'Reilly, |
| 1:10.0 | heaven for climate, hell for society, |
| 1:13.7 | and free thinkers today might add, smile, there is no hell. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:19.4 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves. |
| 1:23.9 | There is no hell, but I think if there were a heaven, having to spend an eternity with Bill O'Reilly, might come very close to it. |
| 1:32.3 | That would be the real way to punish atheists. |
| 1:35.1 | This is the November 24th, 2012 broadcast of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:40.1 | The show is produced and broadcast from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:47.3 | Free Thought Radio streams from this station. |
| 1:50.3 | And we also broadcast in Atlanta, in Grand Rapids, in Monterey, and still in Ithaca? |
| 1:56.9 | Yes. |
| 1:57.3 | In Ithaca, New York. |
| 1:58.1 | Don't forget, Ithaca. |
| 1:58.8 | There's actually three places in the area. |
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