The Most Good you Can Do
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Peter Singer, atheist, author and Princeton professor, who is considered the world's leading ethicist, joins us for an illuminating discussion on his book, "The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically," and his newest book, "Ethics in the Real World." We celebrate FFRF's winter solstice "equal time" displays now up in the Wisconsin State Capitol and Daley Plaza (in conjunction with our Chicago chapter), and report on a state/church victory to remove an unconstitutional nativity display in Michigan. In honor of the 120th anniversary of the birth of lyricist Ira Gershwin, we play Ira's irreverent classic about the bible, "It Ain't Necessarily So."
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.6 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | 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 Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.2 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.1 | Welcome to Freeth Thought Radio. |
| 0:54.9 | I'm Annie Laurie Galar, and happy December. |
| 0:58.0 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:05.7 | This radio show and podcast is being recorded on December 1st, 2016. |
| 1:08.9 | Steve Gotcher is our engineer again. |
| 1:13.8 | He's producing Free Thought Radio in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, the National Offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:20.4 | in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:22.9 | A shout out to those of you listening through the radio today or sometime soon in Grand Rapids, Michigan, College Station, Texas, Columbia, Missouri, Ithaca, and Watkins Glen, New York, Janesville, Wisconsin, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, in Vermont and New Hampshire, and also via |
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| 1:56.4 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. That's a very deliberate |
| 2:02.0 | word from. And thank you. If you're already a member of FFRF. We currently have over 24,500 |
| 2:11.4 | members. We added 168 new members last week, Dan. And we'd really like to reach 25,000 by the year's end. |
| 2:19.7 | Were they people who were listening to our show, radio show? |
| 2:22.4 | I don't know. |
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