Special Guests: Ron Reagan & Emma Martens

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2007

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

An interview with Ron Reagan about his atheism. Reagan, a radio host and TV commentator, is the son of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Also featuring 17 year old Emma Martens, a high school senior who is leading a walkout of students in Boulder, Colo., to protest "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. And a discussion about the Freethought Renaissance--how unbelief and atheism are increasing in the United States and its popular culture. (MP3, 37 min, 33.8 MB)

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0:00.0	This is free thought radio on Air America with co-host Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:16.9	irreverent views, news, music, and interviews.
0:20.2	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.2	It's easy if you try.
0:32.5	No hell below us.
0:39.3	Above us only sky
0:42.3	Imagine all the people
0:48.3	living for today Hello all you godless heathens, irreverent infidels, out-of-the-closite atheists, and born-again
1:02.1	skeptics, and welcome to everyone listening.
1:05.2	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:06.8	Free Thought Radio is the first national radio broadcast geared to the secular sector.
1:12.3	This is your antidote to the religious right domination of our public airwaves.
1:17.2	We're broadcasting and streaming live from Air America Radio.
1:20.8	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:24.1	This program is a non-faith-based initiative of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:30.3	We're the nation's largest group of free thinkers, atheists and agnostics. We're a watchdog group.
1:36.3	We work to defend the wonderful American constitutional principle of separation between church and state.
1:45.4	Later in the hour, we have something very special, an interview with Ron Reagan,
1:49.8	and we'll learn how the son of Ronald and Nancy Reagan managed to grow up an atheist,
1:55.2	and a rather outspoken atheist at that.
1:57.4	And we're also going to be talking with a 17-year-old high school student who, with 100
2:02.5	other students at Boulder Colorado High School, is conducting a once-a-week walkout during the
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