Spooky Theocracy
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
FFRF's state/church and freethought billboards are generating a lot of interest in Tennessee. FFRF's Steven Pinker TV ad is airing on "60 Minutes," and the Catholic League is angry about our national ads. After hearing the song "Spooky Mormon Hell Dream" from "The Book of Mormon," we listen to Nancy Northup, director of the Center For Reproductive Rights, accepting FFRF's "Forward" Award and warning us to resist the scary Religious Right.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
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| 0:13.7 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.4 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people |
| 0:41.3 | Living for today Oh, ha. Oh, happy Halloween. I'm Annie Laurie Gailor, and this is Free Thought Radio. Free Thought Radio will not trick you with lies, but we will treat you to the news and views of Freethinkers. We don't believe in ghosts, but we do believe that the religious right and Christian nationalists are truly |
| 1:29.0 | scary. |
| 1:30.2 | And they do follow a scary Bible that does believe in ghosts and spirits. |
| 1:35.0 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:39.2 | And as you heard, this show is being recorded on October the 31st, on Halloween. Some of you are hearing us on Halloween, and some of you later, this show is being recorded on October the 31st on Halloween. Some of you are hearing us on |
| 1:45.7 | Halloween and some of you later. This is the October 31st, 2019 edition of Free Thought Radio. And by the way, |
| 1:54.1 | as we're recording this on Halloween, it is snowing heavily outside. We barely got our car to slip into the |
| 1:59.8 | here in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 2:01.5 | Here, Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 2:03.3 | So, happy Halloween, whatever that means to you. |
| 2:05.7 | Our engineer today is not a scary guy. He's the very friendly Buzz Kemper. |
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