The 'Alabamification' of the Nation

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2007

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Freethought Radio moves to an afternoon slot, 1-2 p.m. every Saturday. Tune in to hear attorney Pamela Sumners, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice in Missouri, talk about threats to the judiciary, and her experiences litigating state/church violations in Alabama. The show also includes a "Theocracy Alert," a "Freethinkers Almanac," and a timely encore of Philip Appleman's new song, "Intelligent? Design?" The weekly radio broadcast is cohosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, who jointly direct the Freedom From Religion Foundation. (MP3, 50 min, 22.6 MB)

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0:00.0	It's time for Free Thought Radio, a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
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0:14.4	With your host's FFRF co-presidents, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:19.8	with irreverent views, news, music, and interviews. Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try.
0:40.3	No hell below us, above us only sky.
0:48.3	Imagine all the people living for today.
1:04.0	Hello, happy heathens and howbound atheists, greetings, godless, and fiddles, and a warm good afternoon to everybody else.
1:11.7	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:13.4	Stay tuned for an hour of slightly irreverent views, news, interviews, and music.
1:19.4	We're broadcasting for Madison's Progressive Talk, the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:24.8	We're streaming live and podcasting.
1:27.6	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:32.7	Free Thought Radio is brought to you by the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:39.1	Imagine no heaven. Imagine there's no religion.
1:45.5	The foundation is the largest association of atheists and agnostics in the country who do imagine that this is just a natural world.
1:54.2	We are based here in Madison, Wisconsin, and we work to defend the constitutional principle of the separation of church and state.
2:04.7	I had a dream last night.
2:06.9	I was dreaming that I died and I went to heaven.
2:11.3	You went to heaven?
2:12.3	Well, in my dream, I guess if there is a heaven, I'm not really going there.
2:16.1	But in my dream, I went to heaven,
2:34.9	and I was in line at the pearly gates, and there was St. Peter there. And as I was checking in, I heard this loud voice, and a big crowd on the other side of the gate was gathered, listening to this voice. And I said to St. Peter, that sounds like the president of the United States. And he said, no, it's not the president.
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