The Secular Life
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
We are suing the US House Chaplain! Dan Barker, with the help of FFRF attorneys Andrew Seidel and Sam Grover and litigation attorney Rich Bolton, filed a federal lawsuit May 5 challenging Chaplain Father Conroy's refusal to allow an atheist to offer a secular invocation before Congress. Andrew and Sam join us on the show to discuss the 2-year saga that led to this lawsuit. After hearing Irving Berlin's irreverent 1922 song "Pack Up Your Sins and Go To the Devil in Hades," we talk with sociologist and author Phil Zuckerman about his newest book Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.4 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.8 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.4 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:51.8 | Welcome to Freeth Thought Radio. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:00.9 | Keep your eyes open and your head up and your hands unshackled because nothing feels like prayer. |
| 1:07.3 | And the problems with prayer, especially prayer and government, will be one of the themes of today's show. And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:10.7 | Today is the May 7th, 2016 edition |
| 1:14.3 | at Free Thought Radio. We are now in our 11th year of broadcasting. Last week was our 10th anniversary |
| 1:20.0 | show, so we just keep trucking along, don't we? Free Thought Radio is now being produced in the Stephen |
| 1:26.5 | Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:31.1 | the National Offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:35.7 | The show first broadcasts and streams on Progressive Talk, the Mike 92.1, in Madison, Wisconsin, Saturdays at 11 a.m. Central and |
| 1:47.0 | rebroadcast at midnight. |
| 1:49.5 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, which stands for the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:55.2 | and we're a nonprofit with more than 23,700 members who are mainly non-religious, and we have two purposes to educate the public about non-theism and to keep religion out of government, and that will be a theme of today's show. |
| 2:11.2 | This last Thursday was the infamous day known as the National Day of Prayer. So what better day to sue Congress than on the |
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