A Wall of Separation
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Find out why Alabama Governor Kay Ivey and Texas Senator Ted Cruz are dissing the Freedom From Religion Foundation. After hearing Dan Barker's song "The Battle of Church and State," we talk with the distinguished scholar Steven K. Green about his book Separating Church and State: A History.
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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, above us only sky. |
| 0:38.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:59.0 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, living for today, |
| 1:03.8 | and living for hopefully leaving our descendants a secure and pleasant future, |
| 1:05.9 | the only afterlife we have. |
| 1:11.1 | And this is our last show of September, so happy end of September. |
| 1:15.0 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:19.9 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:25.6 | And this is the September 28th, 2023 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:30.4 | Grant Blaschka, who is with the recording studio audio for the arts, |
| 1:35.1 | is our engineer in the Stephen Old Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:40.0 | the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:47.0 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the freedom from religion foundation, emphasis on from. |
| 1:52.2 | You cannot have freedom of religion without having freedom from religion in government. |
| 1:59.8 | And we have two purposes at FFRF to keep religion out of government as our secular constitution dictates, |
| 2:03.6 | and to educate the public, that's you, about the views of the growing number of non-theists in North America and around the world. |
| 2:09.6 | We're about a third of the American population today who identifies as religiously unaffiliated, |
| 2:14.6 | and a number of those are atheists, agnostic, skeptics, and so on. |
| 2:19.0 | We would love to have you join us or find out more about FFRF at our website, |
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