This Life

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week we discuss state/church victories and defeats in Florida, Kentucky and Colorado, and celebrate the lives of February freethinkers such as NAACP founder W. E. B. Du Bois and actor Tony Randall. After hearing folksinger Malvina Reynolds sing about "This World," we talk with Swedish-born Yale professor Martin Hägglund about his book This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom, in which he explains that the concept of eternity destroys true meaning and value.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:09.2	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:13.6	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:19.9	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 living for today.
0:50.3	Imagine that.
0:51.3	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and welcome to Free Thought Radio, which is radio for the rest of us.
0:58.3	For those of us who are irreverent, for those of us who do not buy the claims of religion,
1:04.0	for those of us who know how important it is to keep religion out of government.
1:08.4	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:13.2	This is the February 20th.
1:16.1	That's 2.2020 edition of Freethought Radio.
1:20.5	How often does that happen?
1:21.9	Just once, right?
1:22.7	Well, just once.
1:23.3	Yeah, 2 2020, 2020 edition of Freethought Radio.
1:27.0	Our engineer today is Buzz Kemper.
1:29.8	He's producing the show in the Stephen Yule, friendly atheist studio, in Freethought Hall.
1:36.1	Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:42.7	And the Freedom from Religion Foundation is about 42 years old.
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