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Freethought Radio

Unconventional Convention

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Atheist books are now being burned! Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin and HUD Secretary Ben Carson are mixing religion and government. This week we hear experts of the powerful and informative speeches—including two members of congress, authors, activists, filmmakers, comedians and freethinking students—delivered at FFRF's 42nd annual convention in Madison, Wisconsin.

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0:00.0

This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,

0:09.3

Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.

0:13.6

Imagine there's no heaven.

0:19.3

It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky.

0:47.7

Imagine all the people living for today.

0:54.9

Hello, godless, he then's, infidels, and you fab, free thinkers.

0:56.8

Welcome to Free Thought Radio.

0:58.2

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.

0:59.8

And I'm Dan Barker.

1:04.6

This is the October 24th, 2019 edition of Free Thought Radio.

1:09.9

Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

1:13.4

Our engineer and producer today is Buzz Kemper,

1:18.0

producing the show in the Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall,

1:23.5

which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.

1:31.4

And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, just one of many of our campaigns and projects.

1:32.3

We have a newspaper.

1:34.1

We have a TV show.

1:35.7

We have a Facebook live show.

1:46.8

And we have, is it nine or is it ten constitutional attorneys working for you to keep religion out of government? And we have a 26 member staff working to educate the public about non-theism and keeping religion out of government. And we

1:51.8

would love to have you join us if you're not already a member at ffrf.org. I think it's 10. I'm going

1:57.7

through the offices. There's 10 attorneys, two of them are fellows, so working very hard.

2:03.1

Later on today's show, instead of an interview, we're going to recap our exciting

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