Secular America
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We need a vaccine to keep religion from infecting government. After reporting FFRF victories and complaints, we call for putting our trust in science and for vaccine mandates. We hear Roy Zimmerman's irreverent song, "I Want a Marriage Like They Had in the Bible." Then we speak with Debbie Allen, executive director of the Secular Coalition for America, which lobbies to keep state and church separate.
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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. |
| 0:13.4 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.9 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:23.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.2 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.4 | Welcome to Feed That Radio. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and hello, all you irreverent ones. |
| 1:01.3 | And I'm one of the irreverent ones. I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:07.8 | And this is the October 14th, 2021 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:13.2 | Grant Blaschka with Audio for the Arts is our engineer today, and I understand it's your birthday today, Grant. Is that right? Yes, it is, Dan. Well, happy birthday, and |
| 1:18.4 | you told me you're celebrating your birthday for the 14th time, is that right? That is correct. |
| 1:25.8 | Why is that? Well, I was raised to Jehovah's Witness, actually, and I celebrated my first birthday after I left the church at age 16. |
| 1:36.7 | Wow, what a story. |
| 1:38.0 | So you couldn't celebrate before then, huh? |
| 1:40.4 | No. |
| 1:41.4 | No birthdays for the first 16 years. |
| 1:43.7 | Well, I can do the math. That means you're 29. |
| 1:46.0 | Happy birthday. |
| 1:47.8 | So we'll have to have you back on the show to tell your story. It sounds like you have quite a fascinating story to tell. |
| 1:53.7 | Yeah, I would love to tell it. |
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