The Great Agnostic
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
FFRF lead staff attorney Rebecca Market reports a victory stopping a Mississippi school district from participating in a day of prayer for students, and tells us about more unconstitutional Christian crosses on public property. We celebrate the life of Robert Green Ingersoll, the 19th-century Great Agnostic, by listening to his actual recorded voice, hearing some of his words (some set to music) and by speaking with his relative Jeff Ingersoll, chair of the Robert Ingersoll Memorial Committee, who will speak at the dedication of the refurbished Ingersoll statue in Peoria, Illinois on Ingersoll's August 11 birthday.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.3 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.3 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.9 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:49.3 | Welcome to all you August atheists and agnostics and Freethinkers. |
| 0:54.4 | This is Free Thought Radio, and I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:57.1 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 0:58.3 | You mean August as in August? |
| 1:00.0 | I always make this joke every year. |
| 1:02.0 | The first show in August. |
| 1:03.2 | Yes, all of our August listeners. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:08.0 | This is the August 6, 2016 edition of Free Thought Radio, which first |
| 1:13.7 | broadcasts and streams on Progressive Talk, the Mike 92.1, in Madison, Wisconsin, |
| 1:20.3 | Saturdays at 11 a.m. Central, rebroadcast at midnight, and then later on other stations |
| 1:26.1 | around the country. And we're producing |
| 1:29.0 | the show in the Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, which are the national |
| 1:35.2 | offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. And in the control room |
| 1:40.6 | over there is Buzz Kemper. Buzz is our engineer, producer, and an announcer. |
| 1:45.8 | Is your mic on in there, Buzz? |
| 1:47.2 | I have a mic now, yes. |
| 1:48.7 | Oh, you sound like you're in the other room. |
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