Special Guest: August Brunsman, director of the Secular Student Alliance

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2007

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Guest is August Brunsman, whose Secular Student Alliance works with 80 campus affiliates and provides support and ideas to freethinking students around the country. The show debuts a new song by lyricist and atheist Yip Harburg ("Somewhere Over the Rainbow," "It's Only a Paper Moon"), music by Dan Barker, who set to music a number of Yip's clever rhymes from "Rhymes for the Irreverent" (FFRF, 2006). Ongoing censorship and discrimination against freethinkers are discussed. Dan's Pagan Pulpit challenges churches with say tithing is biblically-ordained. The show is co-hosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. (MP3, 50 min, 22.9 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.
0:20.1	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.2	It's easy if you try.
0:32.0	No hell below us,
0:41.3	above us only sky Imagine all the out-of-the-closet atheists.
1:03.7	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:05.2	We're broadcasting from Madison's Progressive Talk, the Mike 92.1, streaming live live and podcasting on August 4th, 2007.
1:14.7	And I'm Dan Barker, the co-host of the show, your friendly neighborhood atheists.
1:21.5	And I'm also one of those out-of-the-closet atheists.
1:25.9	Free Thought Radio is radio for the rest of us, the non-believers in America, the atheists,
1:32.0	the agnostics, the skeptics, the secular humanists.
1:35.5	This show is a production of the freedom from religion foundation.
1:38.9	We call ourselves free thinkers.
1:40.8	We work to keep state and church separate, and we work to educate the public about the growing, fast-growing segment of the American population that is giving up on or has given up on religion.
1:52.1	So, Dan, that's a handsome baseball cap you have on. What's going on there?
1:55.3	Can you see what it says? Read it. What does it say?
1:57.2	Out of the closet, atheist.
1:59.0	These are the new hats that we got at the foundation, and you know where they came from, right? Yeah, we ordered embroidered caps. They're either in denim or khaki, and Dan is wearing a denim, and it looks very nice, Dan. So do I look more handsome with it on or less here? A little later, we'll be talking with another out-of-the-clos atheist, August Brunsman, who is director of the Secular Student Alliance.
2:21.2	Those under 18 are a growing segment of the free-thinking population and free thought is flourishing on college campuses and even some high schools.
2:29.7	And we'll learn more about that promising phenomenon.
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