Why We Believe
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Religious governors, judges, members of Congress and high-school coaches are running roughshod over the Constitution. We complain about the nefarious National Prayer Breakfast by hearing Dan Barker's song "Nothing Fails Like Prayer." Then we talk with Princeton anthropologist and primatologist Agustín Fuentes, author of Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being.
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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. |
| 0:13.8 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.5 | 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 Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.0 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.3 | Welcome to Freeth Thought Radio. |
| 1:00.4 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and happy Veterans Day to all you atheists and other non-believers in foxholes. |
| 1:09.7 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. This is the November 11th, 2021 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:13.9 | Grant Blaschka, again, is engineering, producing the show in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall. That's the building of the national offices |
| 1:19.7 | of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. Free Thought Radio is the weekly |
| 1:25.7 | production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:28.9 | We do many other things. |
| 1:31.1 | We have other media, newspaper, radio shows, but we primarily work to keep religion out of government |
| 1:37.6 | with a team of attorneys. |
| 1:40.3 | We litigate. |
| 1:41.3 | We try to end violations through education and persuasion, and we also educate you, |
| 1:45.7 | the public, about the views of those of us who are non-religious. |
| 1:50.1 | And if you're a member of FFRF lovely, if not, we would be delighted to send you a sample |
| 1:56.3 | of our newspaper, Free Thought, today. |
| 1:58.0 | It's available as a hard copy or PDF and a brochure about our 40 plus |
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