Wordsmith
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
A state/church victory in Georgia, praise for Secretary of State Blinken's inclusion of nonbelievers and for an HHS proposal to expand family planning services. After hearing the Sherry Matulis poem "Benediction," expressing pride in being an atheist, we talk with author Anu Garg, a former Hindu who is now an atheist, the founder of Wordsmith (wordsmith.org) and the writer of the popular "A Word A Day" email that has hundreds of thousands of subscribers in almost 200 countries.
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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. |
| 0:25.8 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:32.1 | No hell below us. |
| 0:57.0 | Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:59.2 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and this is Radio for the rest of us, those of us who are not religious. |
| 1:06.3 | And I'm Dan Barker, and I'm definitely not religious. |
| 1:11.1 | This is Free Thought Radio for May 13th, 2021. |
| 1:16.7 | We are hosting this show, recording this show, |
| 1:19.2 | in the Landon Beers Library in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:22.8 | which is the National Office of the Freedom |
| 1:25.5 | from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:30.1 | Noah Gilfellon is engineering remotely from the recording studio, Audio for the Arts. |
| 1:37.0 | And we are sitting here in our beautiful library at Freethought Hall in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, |
| 1:43.2 | that Joel B. Landon and Wanda |
| 1:45.6 | Waibears made possible. We have their photographs here with the Green Bay Packer sweatshirts, |
| 1:51.2 | beautiful windows, and surrounded by Freethought Books. So, although we can't be in the Stephen |
| 1:57.5 | Yule studio right now while it's being fixed up again. It's kind of a pleasure |
| 2:02.2 | to record this from the library. And the Freedom from Religion Foundation produces this |
| 2:08.6 | weekly broadcast and podcast. And if you're not acquainted with what we do and are, FFRF is the nation's largest association of Freethinkers. |
| 2:20.3 | That means atheists, agnostic, skeptics, nonbelievers, |
| 2:23.3 | whatever you like to call yourself. |
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