The Challenge of Things

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We celebrate the anniversary of the January 16, 1786, adoption of Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and the January 17, 1706 birthday of Benjamin Franklin, who opposed public funding for education. FFRF attorneys Patrick Elliott and Sam Grover describe the questions we submitted for the confirmation hearings of Jeff Sessions for Attorney General and Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education, both of whom have shown a disrespect for state/church separation. Then we talk with professor of philosophy and prolific author A. C. Grayling (founder and Master of New College of the Humanities in London) about his book, The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:14.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:17.0	It's easy if you try
0:23.6	No hell below us
0:29.6	Above us only sky
0:36.6	Imagine all the people
0:42.3	Living for today
0:50.3	Hello happy heathen or humanist, unabashed atheist or agnostic, whatever you like to identify yourself as, as a non-religious individual.
1:00.8	This show is for you.
1:03.4	Welcome to Free Thought Radio.
1:04.8	I'm Annie Laurie Galore.
1:06.1	And I'm Dan Barker.
1:07.2	I like to identify myself as the friendly neighborhood atheist, or maybe none of the above, the above as in the transcendent.
1:17.1	This is the January 12th, 2017 edition of Freethought Radio.
1:22.0	Steve Gotcher is our engineer, producing the show in the Stephen Yule Friend atheist studio and Freethought Hall, the
1:28.3	National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:33.8	Our show is both broadcasting around the continent and podcasting throughout the known, or for
1:39.8	that matter, the unknown universe.
1:42.7	Freethart Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:47.1	Yes, we have the emphasis on from.
1:49.7	FFRF works diligently to keep religion out of government, as is required under the entirely
1:56.6	godless and secular constitution of the United States.
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