State-Church Watchdogs
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Prayer is the target of this week's show: the National Prayer Breakfast and school-board prayer. For Valentine's Day, we hear Susan Hofer sing Dan Barker's freethought love song, "It's Only Natural." Then, we speak with FFRF attorneys Sammi Lawrence and Chris Line about their watchdog letters of complaint to public officials who violate state/church separation and the legal friend-of-the-court briefs they have written to keep religion out of government.
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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. |
| 0:40.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:59.8 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Galar, and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:04.7 | Today's show is our Valentine to you and to Free Thought. |
| 1:06.8 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:11.6 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. And this is the February 8th, |
| 1:14.6 | 2024 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:17.6 | Can you believe this is our 928th show? |
| 1:21.6 | No. |
| 1:22.6 | Since 2006 and we started. |
| 1:24.6 | Somebody's listened to all of them. |
| 1:26.6 | Wow, congratulations. Tori Neals with |
| 1:30.3 | Audio for the Arts is our engineer today in the Stephen O'Friendly Atheist Studio, which is |
| 1:36.4 | in Freethought Hall, the national offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, |
| 1:42.4 | Wisconsin. And Feat Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:48.2 | And FFRF, as many listeners know, has two purposes to keep religion out of government |
| 1:55.1 | as the U.S. secular constitution dictates, and also to educate the public, that's you, about the views of the |
| 2:03.4 | growing number of non-believers and non-affiliated individuals in the United States. |
| 2:09.2 | We have a newspaper free thought today. We have a television show, other podcasts, and you can |
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