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Freethought Radio

Southern Rationalists

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6578 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We talk about rogue priests, predator priests, sanctimonious senators, creationist lawmakers and charitable atheists. After hearing Dan Barker's first freethought song, "You Can't Win With Original Sin," we talk with Jennifer Taylor, the new president of the Rationalists of East Tennessee, about how she escaped the Jehovah's Witnesses to become a happy freethinker.

Transcript

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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.

0:43.3

Imagine all the people living for today.

0:58.4

Welcome to Freethought Radio.

1:04.5

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is Radio for the rest of us, us sinners, us non-believers,

1:08.1

free thinkers, and nuns, N-O-N-E-S.

1:11.6

And I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Freeethought Radio. This is the April 29th, 2021 edition of Freethought Radio.

1:17.3

Annie, Lori, and I are still hosting from our Safe at Home studio in Madison, Wisconsin,

1:23.3

while Buzz Kemper is engineering from his studio down by the Wisconsin State Capitol called Audio for the Arts.

1:31.8

So this is April 29th.

1:33.4

Do you know what happened exactly 15 years ago on April 29th, 2006?

1:41.5

Well, I only know because you told me that was the original debut of Free Thought Radio.

1:48.2

And we can hear what happened on that April 29, 2006.

1:56.0

Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.

1:58.6

And I'm Dan Barker, and welcome to the debut of Free Thought Radio.

2:04.0

We invite everyone, regardless of your views, to listen, to participate, to get acquainted

2:09.0

with Freethinkers, and with Free Thought.

2:11.9

Our new program, Free Thought Radio, is the only weekly radio broadcast anywhere in North America coming from the secular

2:19.5

point of view. This radio broadcast represents the viewpoint of the significant 14% of the

2:26.0

U.S. population who are not religious, whether they call themselves rationalists,

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