Village Atheists
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
For this Election Day and Veteran's Day week, we talk about the importance of secular voters and members of the military. We report two state/church victories involving police departments, and a complaint over religion in Biloxi, Mississippi public schools. After hearing Dan Barker's version of Bob Dylan's anti-war song "With God On Our Side," we interview historian Leigh Eric Schmidt about his new book, Village Atheists: How America's Unbelievers made their way in a godly nation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.0 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:18.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:23.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people Welcome to free thought Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I am Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:54.8 | Vote. |
| 0:57.6 | Vote like your rights depend on it. |
| 1:02.9 | Vote like the future of the Supreme Court depends on it because they do. |
| 1:06.7 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. This is our pre-election show being produced and broadcast from the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:15.8 | which are the national offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:20.8 | We first broadcast and stream on Progressive Talk, the Mike 92.1, in Madison, Saturdays at 11 a.m. Central, and repeated at midnight. |
| 1:33.7 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Dan and I are the |
| 1:38.8 | co-presidents, and I'm an original co-founder. And FFRFRF was founded for two reasons to buttress the |
| 1:47.3 | constitutional wall of separation between state and church and also to educate the public |
| 1:53.2 | about non-theism and to serve free thinkers whether you're atheists or agnastics and today |
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