The Art of Thinking Freely
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Good news: Michigan's newly-elected Attorney General Dana Nessel removed the state from three amicus briefs opposing FFRF lawsuits. After we analyze the National Prayer Breakfast and the Christian-nationalist "Project Blitz" strategy to inject religion into state governments, we hear Susan Hofer sing Dan Barker's love ballad "It's Only Natural" in honor of Darwin's birthday on February 12. Then we talk with professor Andrew S. Curran, author of the new book Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely about the 18th-century's most famous atheist, the French encyclopedist Denis Diderot.
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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. |
| 0:13.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:17.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine all the people above us only sky Valentine's day is coming up so it's time to love thy First Amendment. |
| 0:56.6 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:59.8 | And I'm Dan Barker. And we have a bumper sticker that says love thy first amendment. |
| 1:06.4 | That's right. We have a lot of really cute bumper stickers at FFRF.org slash shop. |
| 1:11.2 | And you can probably tell that my voice is just barely here today. |
| 1:15.0 | I think we'll see what happens. |
| 1:17.3 | You might have to take over, Annulary, if my voice crashes and burns here. |
| 1:21.6 | This is the February 7th, 2019 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:29.3 | Buzz Kemper is our engineer today. He's producing the show for the second time now this year, |
| 1:33.3 | because we were over at your studio for a while, Buzz, Audio for the Arts, |
| 1:36.3 | but now we're back in our own studio, the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:43.3 | the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:49.5 | And it is newly expanded, and that really, the expansion is really for our use of video and for our TV show Free Thought Matters, |
| 1:58.6 | but we're now in a slightly more spacious environment for |
| 2:01.7 | producing this radio show. And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from |
| 2:08.0 | Religion Foundation. And FFRF has two purposes. We don't just work for separation of church and state, |
| 2:14.3 | although that is one of our two purposes. We also educate the public about non-theism, and we have been running commercials in February |
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