Spotlight on Freethought
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" on HULU is the freethought cultural event this week. We complain about the San Antonio mayor's remark that poverty stems from a broken "relationship with their Creator." After Michael Newdow's hilarious song "My God Is In My Soul," incorporating hate messages on his answering machine, we analyze what is wrong with the upcoming National Day of Prayer. Then we hear the "Spotlight on Freethought" segment that explains why the Constitution protects nonbelievers from the tyranny of the religious majority.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.0 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:18.0 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and I am living for today, but I'm also living for something else. |
| 0:57.8 | It's the first hundred days of the current U.S. administration on Saturday, |
| 1:04.1 | and that means 100 days less of the current administration, because we do have a lot of state church assaults. |
| 1:12.1 | So kind of the good news and the bad news. |
| 1:14.4 | Well, and actually, we don't believe in miracles, but we've actually survived these first |
| 1:18.8 | hundred days. |
| 1:19.4 | So, I mean, that's an accomplishment, too. |
| 1:21.6 | So I'm Dan Barker with Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:24.6 | I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist, and Annie Lurie is also a friendly |
| 1:27.8 | neighborhood atheist. This is the April 27, 2017 edition of Free Thought Radio. Buzz Kemper is our engineer. |
| 1:37.3 | He's producing the show in the Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio, which is located in Freeought Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:51.4 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, Freedom from Religion Foundation, and we are a national membership group. |
| 1:58.1 | We've had a database change, and we're waiting the final new figures, |
| 2:02.4 | but we're at least up to 28,000. My goal, if your regular listener, is to be at 30,000 by June. |
| 2:09.0 | So if you are a regular listener, please consider joining us not someday but today at |
| 2:14.6 | ffrf.org. And your membership, if you're a U.S. citizen, is deductible for income |
| 2:20.4 | tax purposes. And that's something to think about in April. You've just done your taxes. |
| 2:24.8 | And it will really go to combat the religious right and religion and government and to promote |
| 2:30.7 | free thought so that reason will prevail in our public policy. And we tell you what |
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