Strong Women

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

For a change of pace while Annie Laurie and Dan are busy with FFRF's 40th annual convention, FFRF's Director of First Impressions Lisa Treu hosts this week's show featuring music by strong women. Marlene Dietrich, Shelley Segal, Joan Baez, Peggy Seeger, Malvina Reynolds, Kristin Lems, Lena Horne, Ani DiFranco, and more, singing about evolution, equality, the (non)afterlife, peace, Eve, and life as a freethinking woman.

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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
0:22.6	No hell below us
0:33.6	Above us only sky
0:36.6	Imagine all the people Hello, today Hello to all my fellow Uh-huhy free thinkers, I'm Lisa Troy, director of First Impressions at FFRF.
0:59.0	Dan and Annie Laurie are busy hosting the 40th annual Freedom from Religion National Convention at the Monona Terrace Convention Center here in Madison.
1:09.0	This is the September 14th, 2017 edition of Free Thought Radio.
1:14.6	Buzz Kemper is our engineer producing today's program from the Steve Yule friendly atheist
1:19.4	studio in Freethought Hall, the national headquarters of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:26.3	And as Annie Laurie tells us every week, Free Thought
1:29.3	Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which has two purposes,
1:36.8	one to keep state and church separate, and the second to educate the public about the views
1:42.4	of non-theists. And we hope today you will join us.
1:46.7	Today is Margaret Sanger's birthday. Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood and was a tireless
1:53.4	advocate for birth control in women's rights, was born September 14, 1879. She was called the
2:00.4	Woman of the Century. In fact, H.D. Wells called
2:04.9	Sanger a heroine of history. The motto of Margaret Sanger's newsletter, The Woman Rebel, was
2:11.8	no gods, no masters. And in honor of uppity women who have worked to change history, our show today will celebrate
2:20.4	women performers who influence music and use their talents to encourage positive changes for
2:27.9	women in modern society.
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