Unconventional Convention
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We hit some of the highlights of FFRF's 45th annual convention in San Antonio, Texas, including welcoming remarks by U.S. Representatives Jared Huffman(CA) and Jamie Raskin(MD). Then we listen in to the live performance at that convention of the world premiere of the Godless Gospel musical group.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.2 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:53.6 | I'm Annie Laurie Galar. |
| 1:02.0 | Halloween is passed, but this upcoming week of November 8th and the midterm elections are a lot scarier. |
| 1:03.8 | So much at stake. |
| 1:09.4 | Remember to vote and to vote like your rights depend on it because they do. |
| 1:11.0 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:15.9 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:20.3 | This is the November 3rd, 2022 episode of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:26.4 | Grant Blashka is our engineer in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:31.0 | the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:46.1 | Freethought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and we have two purposes at FFRF, to keep religion out of government and social policy, and to educate the public about the views of our members who are personally free from religion. |
| 1:47.7 | So find out more at ffrof.org, and you can request a sample of our newspaper Free Thought Today |
| 1:54.2 | at the Ask for Info link on our homepage. |
| 1:57.5 | In the second half of today's show, we're going to talk about religion and non-religion |
| 2:02.1 | in Guatemala. Anna Raquel Aquino is the president of Guatemala Humanists. She'll tell us how |
| 2:09.4 | their group is working to keep church and state separate in a country drenched with religion. |
| 2:15.2 | But before that, we want to tell you about FFRF's 45th annual |
| 2:18.8 | convention last weekend, and in a few minutes we'll hear the exciting welcoming remarks made by |
| 2:25.1 | two members of Congress, Jared Huffman of California and Jamie Raskin of Maryland, that were presented |
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