Unabashed Atheist
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Major court win! FFRF attorney Liz Cavell joins us to talk about FFRF's successful lawsuit blocking the state of Alabama from requiring the religious "So Help Me, God" oath on voter registration forms, a victory for state/church separation as well as voting rights. After listening to freethinker Yip Harburg sing "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", we hear Ron Reagan, son of president Ronald and Nancy Reagan, tell us why he is a life-long "unabashed atheist" who is "not afraid of burning in hell."
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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 |
| 0:41.3 | Above us only sky Imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today welcome to free thought radio i'm annie laurie gailor happy spring we have birds chirping outside our window |
| 1:05.9 | today my daffodils are half of them are now blooming and Dan I predict by the end of today the first tulips |
| 1:13.2 | when I'm Dan Barker Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation and |
| 1:19.9 | this is the April 8th 2021 edition of Free Thought Radio we're hosting this show from our safe at home |
| 1:27.0 | studio in Madison, Wisconsin, |
| 1:28.6 | while once again the malefluous Buzz Kemper is producing and engineering the show from |
| 1:35.2 | Audio for the Arts. That's his recording studio down near the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| 1:41.2 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:46.8 | and FFRF has two purposes to keep religion out of government and to educate the public, |
| 1:52.6 | that is you, about the views of nonbelievers. And we're over 35,000 members. We would love to |
| 1:58.8 | have you join us. If you're not a member, you may be seeing our Ron Reagan commercials again on Rachel Maddo this this week and next week. You can ask for information and a sample of our newspaper and our brochure about 40 plus years of activism at ffrof.org. So Dan, do you have a joke for me today? I do have a joke. William Duesenberry sent us this joke. |
| 2:21.3 | An Irish Sunday school teacher said, |
| 2:24.3 | I was testing children in my Dublin Sunday school class to see if they understood the concept of getting to heaven. |
| 2:31.3 | I asked them, if I sold my house on my car and had a big garage sale and gave all my money to the church, would that get me into heaven? |
| 2:39.0 | No, the children answered. If I cleaned the church every day and mowed the garden and kept everything tidy, would that get me into heaven? Again, the answer was, no. If I gave sweets to all the children and loved my husband, would that get me into heaven? Again, the answer was, no! If I gave sweets to all the children and loved my husband, would |
| 2:52.5 | that get me into heaven? Again, the children all said, no, I was just bursting with pride |
| 2:59.6 | for them, and I continued, then how can I get to heaven? And a little boy in the back row |
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