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Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2007

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Freethought Radio features an interview all the way from Iceland, with Hope Knutsson, president of the Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association, about the remarkable lack of fundamentalists in Iceland! News includes an update on the cover-up of priestly crimes against children by the Roman Catholic Church, including a brief excerpt of a moving documentary on church culpability by the BBC. Phonecalls from "loving" Christians to the Foundation are also broadcast. The weekly show is hosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. (MP3, 50 min, 23.2 MB)

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0:00.0	It's time for Free Thought Radio, a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
0:11.0	featuring Foundation co-presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:16.3	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and interviews. Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.2	It's easy if you try.
0:32.6	No hell below us, above us only sky
0:41.3	imagine all the people
0:46.3	living for today.
0:57.6	Come join the atheist renaissance.
1:00.3	There's a rebirth of free thought that has been long overdue in this country.
1:04.3	I'm Annie Laurie Galore and welcome to the weekly Free Thought Radio, your antidote to the religious right control of the broadcast airwaves.
1:14.5	We're broadcasting for Madison's Progressive Talk, the Mike 92.1, streaming live from Madison, Wisconsin, and podcasting on July 14th, 2007.
1:24.4	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. Speaking of podcasting, I was in Des Moines
1:29.9	last Saturday and met some of the Iowa secularists there. And at least a half dozen of them came up
1:35.8	and said that they are, they listened to this podcast religiously. And in fact, one of them,
1:42.1	her name is Amanda. She said that her entire recent reading list comes from listening to this show.
1:48.0	So hello, Iowa secularists and keep up the good work.
1:51.0	Stay tuned for the next hour of Free Thought Radio.
1:54.0	This is a non-faith-based production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:58.0	We are atheists and agnostic.
2:01.1	So you don't have to believe or call yourself anything.
2:04.4	We like to say we all, whatever we call ourselves,
2:06.5	we all disbelieve in the same God.
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