The Evangelicals
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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FFRF Victory! Staff attorney Madeline Ziegler joins us to talk about our recent victory in federal court removing a 34-foot-tall Christian cross from a city park in Pensacola, Florida, a decision that has upset prominent evangelicals like Franklin Graham, Mike Huckabee, Bill Donohue and Marco Rubio. After hearing Lena Horne's performance of the irreverent Yip Harburg song "Ain't It The Truth," we talk with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Frances Fitzgerald about her new book, The Evangelicals: The Struggle To Shape America.
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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. It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine all the people Above us only sky. |
| 0:57.1 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and a big hello to all you secular troublemakers, |
| 0:58.9 | and we're going to be talking about that in a minute. |
| 1:04.5 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood troublemaker atheist, and I guess that's a compliment. |
| 1:10.6 | Today is the June 22nd, 2017 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:19.5 | Our engineers, Buzz Kemper, producing this show in the Stephen Yule, friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:25.2 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:29.6 | Freethought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:31.4 | and FFRF has two purposes. |
| 1:38.9 | We work to educate the public about non-theism, and we work very diligently to support the separation of church and state as required by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. |
| 1:45.0 | And we are over 29,000 members in North America, and we hope not someday, but today you |
| 1:51.0 | will join us at ffrf.org. |
| 1:53.4 | And we educate the public about the views of nonbelievers. |
| 1:57.6 | This week is the anniversary of the birthday of the non-believing songwriter, Richard |
| 2:03.7 | Rogers, the composer of more than 900 songs and 43 Broadway musicals, including Oklahoma, South |
| 2:12.9 | Pacific, the King and I, The Sounds of Music. He was born June 28, 1902. |
| 2:21.3 | Richard Rogers is one of only two people to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, a Tony, |
| 2:29.0 | and the Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer Prize. He was an out and proud atheist, and we will hear some of Rogers' music, |
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