African American Freethinkers

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Guest: Christopher Cameron. After mourning the tragic school massacre in Texas, we point out the ineffectiveness of "thoughts and prayers" and denounce politicians who blame the violence on godlessness. We hear singer/songwriter Roy Zimmerman satirize "thoughts and prayers" in his song ""To the Victims of This Tragedy." Then professor and author Christopher Cameron describes the rich history of African American Freethought.

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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.
0:43.3	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:57.0	Imagine no religion and imagine no gun violence in a country where school children and their parents don't live in fear,
1:07.0	where black or Asian American or Hispanic individuals going about their business
1:14.5	don't live in fear of being targeted for their color,
1:17.7	where really all of us do not live in fear.
1:20.3	We are in a nation plagued by senseless gun violence.
1:25.0	So we need some reason to prevail here. And by the way, the drummer we just heard
1:30.9	Alan White, who played on John Lennon's Imagine album, died unexpectedly last week at the age of 72
1:38.6	after a brief illness. We pay homage to White, who was the longtime drummer for the English band. Yes, and by the way,
1:47.5	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. And I'm Dan Barker, your co-host of Free Thought Radio. This is the June 2nd,
1:55.7	2022 episode of Free Thought Radio. Noah Gilfillon with Audio for the Arts is our engineer today in the Stephen Yule-friendly
2:04.6	atheist studio in Freethought Hall.
2:08.0	Freethought Hall is the national office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison,
2:13.9	Wisconsin.
2:15.3	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
2:19.4	and FFRF has two purposes to keep religion out of government and social policy
2:24.4	as our secular constitution prescribes,
2:27.9	and to serve as a national association for like-minded individuals,
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