The Cosmos
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Guests: Chris Line; Ann Druyan. After we report on national and regional news, FFRF attorney Chris Line updates us on the many state/church complaints and victories he has been handling around the country. Then we hear author, educator and Emmy-winning producer of the "Cosmos" TV series Ann Druyan (along with her daughter Sasha Sagan) as she accepts FFRF's "Emperor Has No Clothes" award.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:17.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:23.6 | No hell below us above us only sky. |
| 0:48.9 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.9 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:01.4 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome almost to April. Yay. I'm glad to say goodbye to March. |
| 1:13.9 | And I'm Dan Barker, and this is the March 31st, 2022 edition of Free Thought Radio. Grant Blaska, he's an engineer with Audio for the Arts. |
| 1:21.0 | He's producing our show today in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:27.1 | Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:33.2 | And of course, tomorrow is April 1st, and that reminds me of our favorite April Fool's quip. |
| 1:38.2 | The Bible says, the Fool says in his heart, there is no God. |
| 1:41.5 | But the atheist says it out loud. So we're having an April Fool's Eve joke today, as Dan knows. |
| 1:46.8 | It's snowing and sticking. |
| 1:49.1 | So we are going to be glad to see April. |
| 1:51.6 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation with emphasis on from. |
| 1:57.1 | Our members are personally free from religion. |
| 2:00.0 | And we want the government to be free from religion as our secular, godless constitution dictates. |
| 2:05.6 | And you can find out more about the important work of the Freedom from Religion Foundation at our website, ffrof.org, and you can click the Ask for Info link to get a copy of our lively newspaper, Free Thought, today, |
| 2:19.4 | and a brochure about our 45 plus years of very important activism, or join us. |
| 2:26.0 | There's a donate or join link that you can go to as well. |
| 2:29.7 | Today, in the second half of the show, we're going to hear from Anne Drianne as she accepts |
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