The Trial of the Century
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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We announce a great victory from the Arkansas courts blocking the state from displaying the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. After reporting state/church news in California, West Virginia, Iowa and West Point Military Academy, we hear the Tom Lehrer song "I Got it from Agnes" and the "1919 Influenza Blues" by Essie Ray Jenkins. Then, we listen to the talk given at the Scopes Trial Centennial last month by Brenda Wineapple, author of Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation.
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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 |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:46.3 | living for today. |
| 0:58.6 | Welcome to Fetha Radio. |
| 1:02.1 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore and happy August. |
| 1:06.4 | And we are truly in the dog days of summer, aren't we? |
| 1:07.6 | We sure are. |
| 1:08.7 | I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:13.6 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:27.0 | This is the August 7th, 2025 episode of Freethought Radio, recorded in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, our national headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin. By the way, I looked up the |
| 1:29.1 | origin of the phrase dog days of summer, and it comes from the ancient civilizations, especially |
| 1:35.8 | the Greeks and the Romans, who observed that the hottest days of summer coincide with the rising |
| 1:42.6 | of Sirius, the brightest star in the Canis Major, which is also |
| 1:48.4 | known as the dog star. Yeah, you know, I never knew that. I just kind of assumed it was because we see |
| 1:54.5 | dogs baking in the sun this time of summer, but it stands to reason a barker would know the origins. |
| 2:01.6 | Ah, ha, ha. |
| 2:02.6 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, emphasis on from, |
| 2:09.6 | because there is no freedom of religion without freedom from religion in government, |
| 2:13.6 | and that's why my mother and I, when we co-founded this group, named the organization Freedom from Religion Foundation. And often people call us up and they'll say, people who are calling cold or vendors or whatever, they'll say, freedom of religion. You know, when do you say no freedom from religion? And our members are |
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