"The theater is my religion."
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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We announce state/church victories and complaints in Louisiana, Idaho, North Carolina, Texas and Mississippi. FFRF Senior Counsel Sam Grover tells us about the lawsuit FFRF has filed this week with a coalition challenging Louisiana's new law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms. Then, Tony-nominated Broadway producer, director and theater owner Eric Krebs tells us why the theater is his religion.
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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. |
| 0:19.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 0:43.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:58.1 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:03.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and we have a lot of exciting news for you this week. |
| 1:04.9 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:10.5 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:15.1 | And this is the June 27th episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:20.9 | Our engineer is Tori Neels with Audio for the Arts. |
| 1:25.1 | She's in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio, |
| 1:26.8 | which is right here in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:32.7 | the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:46.7 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which is the nation's largest association of freethinkers, atheists and agnostics, working to educate the public both about non-theism and about the importance of defending our constitutional |
| 1:52.2 | separation between religion and government, and we have a lot of news about how we're doing that |
| 1:57.3 | this week. |
| 1:59.2 | FFRF has more than 40,000 members, mostly atheists and agnostics. |
| 2:04.9 | In the second half of today's show, we're going to meet one of those members. |
| 2:08.8 | Eric Krebs is a Tony-nominated Broadway producer, director, and theater owner who's been |
| 2:16.3 | involved in theater for more than a half century. |
| 2:19.9 | Eric is a life member of FFRF and he'll tell us about living a life in the arts. |
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