Strange Gods

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We welcome the spring with some light music by freethinking songwriter Yip Harburg (who wrote “Over The Rainbow”) and country singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks (“God Isn’t Real”). After FFRF staff attorney Sam Grover updates us on some state/church victories in southern states, we announce a new drawing for the Yip Harburg book Rhymes For The Irreverent. Then we talk with author, historian, and cultural critic Susan Jacoby about her new book, Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:14.7	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:18.6	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
0:40.7	Imagine all the people
0:47.0	Living for today
0:53.0	Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Galore.
0:58.7	Tomorrow's the Vernal Equinox. Think Spring.
1:03.0	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:06.6	And boy, are we ready for spring here in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:11.0	This is the March 19th, 2016 edition of Free Thought Radio,
1:15.3	which is being produced in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio
1:21.0	at Free Thought Hall in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:24.0	Our show first broadcasts and streams on Progressive Talk, which is the mic 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday mornings at 11 a.m. and also rebroadcast at midnight.
1:39.9	And speaking of the Stephen Ull-friendly atheist studio, you got to see Stephen last weekend in Tucson,
1:46.5	didn't you, Dan?
1:47.0	I did.
1:47.6	I went to Tucson and to Phoenix, but mainly for the Tucson Festival of Books that was being held this last weekend.
1:57.8	And Stephen Yule and Diane Yule are involved with the humanist and free thought groups there in Tucson
2:03.6	and so we had a really nice meeting of 165 people showed up Sunday morning at the Duval Auditorium there at the university
2:11.6	and it was just an exciting time to be with a lot of non-believers and of of course, Stephen and Diane have been very helpful with our new
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