We Are The Champions
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week we celebrate victories in three federal lawsuits (Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and California), and three other state/church victories won without going to court (Wisconsin, Washington, Kentucky). After listening to former preacher Carter Warden's new song, "Freedom From Religion," we talk with two of the victorious litigants: Jerry Bloom, who ended censorship of freethought views in Shelton, Connecticut, and Marie Schaub, the "atheist mother" who finally got the huge Ten Commandments monument removed from her daughter's school in New Kensington, Pennsylvania.
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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. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:41.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:47.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 1:00.0 | living for today We are the champions. We are the champions. |
| 1:05.0 | We are the champions |
| 1:08.0 | of the world. Welcome to FI Thought Radio. |
| 1:14.7 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and in a minute I'll tell you why we are playing. |
| 1:19.5 | We are the Champions. |
| 1:21.4 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:25.0 | This is the February 23rd, 2017 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:30.4 | Buzz Kemper and Audrey Martinovich are our engineers today, producing the show in the Stephen |
| 1:37.5 | Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethad Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:47.6 | And the Freedom from Religion Foundation is the producer of this show. And we've been on the air since 2006. |
| 1:56.1 | And FFRF is a nationwide free thought association that works very hard to keep religion out of government. |
| 2:02.4 | And Dan, what is our membership as of this week? |
| 2:05.4 | 27,500, more or less, so we're growing. |
| 2:09.0 | Been growing by about 200 since the last show. |
| 2:11.9 | So we are really pleased. |
| 2:14.4 | At least it's a silver lining with the political situation. |
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