Religious Freedom 101
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week Annie Laurie, Dan and Andrew answer questions from listeners, such as "How can you be sure there is no supreme being?", "How does the bible compare to Game of Thrones?", "Are you afraid to die?", "How do you reply to 'God bless you'?", and so on. During the second half of the show, we talk with well-known satirical and irreverent singer/songwriter Roy Zimmerman, who will be performing at FFRF's annual convention next week. During the show, we hear a preview of Roy's songs "Ted Haggard is Completely Heterosexual" and "Religious Freedom," which covers the history of America's religious liberty in four minutes.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people above us only sky Hello, welcome to feed that radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:55.2 | And I'm Dan Barker. I'm Annie Laurie's co-host. |
| 0:58.1 | And Buzz Kemper is in the control room doing the engineering and producing again this day |
| 1:02.6 | in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:07.4 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:13.0 | This is the September 7th, 2017 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:18.0 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:22.3 | We're a 501c3 educational charity. We have 29,000, almost 30,000 members. We hope if you're not a member, |
| 1:30.5 | that not someday, but today you will join us at fff.org. And if you're already a member, |
| 1:36.1 | thank you. We work for separation of church and state and to educate the public about non-theism. |
| 1:41.4 | Today, we're going to talk with the amazing singer-songwriter, Roy Zimmerman. |
| 1:47.1 | He's the well-known musical satirist, who, as his website says, writes and sings funny songs |
| 1:55.3 | about ignorance, war, and greed. |
| 1:58.4 | Joni Mitchell said, Roy's lyrics move beyond poetry and achieve perfection. |
| 2:04.3 | And Roy Zimmerman is a non-believer, and we have played many of his songs on |
| 2:09.1 | Free Thought Radio over the years, but it's been a gross oversight that we're correcting today |
| 2:13.2 | that we've never actually interviewed him on our program. |
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