Victories in the battle of state and church!

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Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 7 November 2011

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week's show is devoted to FFRF state-church victories and complaints in South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Montana (with "hate mail" readings), and Colorado (a victory 3 years in the making). The show ends with Dan's song "The Stay Away Pope Polka" in commemoration of the planet's 7 billionth human inhabitant.

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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
0:34.6	No hell below us
0:41.1	Above us below us above us only sky imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today
0:55.2	Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome to all you seven billion inhabitants of planet Earth, one fifth of whom are non-religious, and that's a lot of heathens.
1:08.1	But I think we have taken the Genesis' injunction
1:11.2	to be fruitful and multiply too seriously.
1:15.0	Yeah, be fruitful and multiply and replenish the Earth.
1:17.8	Well, the Earth has been replenished, folks.
1:20.4	We can stop now.
1:21.6	I am Dan Barker here with Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:24.1	I am your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves, as some people have called me.
1:29.2	This is the November the 5th, 2011 broadcast of Free Thought Radio. The show is produced and broadcast
1:36.5	at the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. The show also streams from this station, and we podcast,
1:43.3	and we broadcast in other places around the country, including in Atlanta, in Grand Rapids, in Monterey, and in New York City.
1:51.3	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and we're a national watchdog for state church separation, and we were to keep religion out of government,
2:07.1	as well as being the largest association of like-minded people who are free from religion personally.
2:08.6	Seven billion people in our group?
2:09.8	17,000.
2:10.1	Okay.
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