The Value of Telling The Truth
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Twelve-year-old author Bailey Harris, who started writing her first book when she was eight, speaks at FFRF's annual convention in San Francisco on November 2, telling us how she came to write the freethought children's book My Name Is Stardust. Then we hear the actor, director and producer John de Lancie (who played "Q" on Star Trek: The Next Generation) explain to our convention audience "The value of telling the truth."
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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. |
| 0:13.5 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | 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 feet Above us only sky. Hello, Freethinkers. I'm Dan Barker, and this is the November 29th, 2018 edition of Free Thought Radio, produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:05.2 | Annie Laurie is not with me today. This show is pre-recorded because Annie Laurie is in London this week, where she was invited |
| 1:14.5 | to speak at the Sharia Segregation and Secularism Conference, organized by Merriam Namazi. |
| 1:22.3 | Buzz Kemper is engineering our show in the Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:33.3 | Free Thought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. FFRF's 32,000 plus members work to keep state and church separate |
| 1:38.3 | and to educate the public about the views of non-theists. |
| 1:42.3 | That's atheists and agnostics. And we hope you will join us. |
| 1:47.1 | You can do so at ffrf.org. The music today is from the Cosmos, a space-time Odyssey TV show, |
| 1:56.9 | and you'll know why in a few minutes. Today, we're going to hear two of the many amazing speeches |
| 2:03.0 | that were delivered at our annual convention |
| 2:05.0 | earlier this month in San Francisco. |
| 2:07.4 | First, Bailey Harris, the 12-year-old author |
| 2:11.9 | of Freethinking Children's Books, |
| 2:14.5 | and after that, the actor John Delancey. |
| 2:18.3 | Bailey Harris was introduced to the crowd of almost a thousand attendees by FFRF's |
| 2:25.3 | program manager, Monica Schwartz. |
| 2:28.3 | Hello! |
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