War of the Billboards

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2008

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A "war of the billboards" brewing in rural Pennsylvania over the Foundation's "Imagine No Religion" billboard will be discussed, and a religious billboard defaming atheists as "hating America" will be debunked. The special guest is a local atheist from the area who hosted the billboard to counter the ubiquitous religion on the roadside in Chambersburg, Penn. Host Dan Barker will talk about the "anti-Carnival" in Brazil he took part in, as an invited guest representing American freethought. Tune in for some other surprises.

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0:00.0	Imagine there's no heaven
0:22.4	It's easy if you try
0:29.0	No hell below us
0:35.6	Above us
0:38.3	Above us only sky
0:41.3	Imagine all the people
0:48.3	living for today Hello are you feisty free thinkers and happy heathens.
1:00.6	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:02.2	Welcome to the slightly irreverent Free Thought Radio, radio for the rest of us, broadcasting
1:08.0	and streaming live from Air America.
1:10.7	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:14.6	Free Thought Radio is the only national radio broadcast from the point of view of our nation's
1:20.7	growing population of non-religious, non-believers, atheists, agnostics, and skeptics. Our broadcast is a production of
1:30.1	the Freedom from Religion Foundation. We're a membership organization, and we hope someday you
1:35.7	will join us. You can find us online at ffrf.org. We have a fascinating controversy to talk about
1:43.9	today about what happens when the Freedom from Religion Foundation takes a little billboard saying, imagine no religion, to a small town in Pennsylvania.
1:54.1	And what has happened is that that billboard company that put up our own billboard has put up one repudiating ours, and another religious group
2:03.3	has stuck up a billboard saying that atheists hate America.
2:07.4	So later in this segment, we'll be talking with the man who put up this billboard for
2:13.6	the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
2:15.3	We'll be talking about that controversy, and what it reveals about America's continuing tendency
2:20.7	to demonize atheists, and we'll get that inside scoop.
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