American Freethought
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We announce new FFRF litigation this week. In honor of Pride Month, we celebrate the birth anniversary on June 9 (1891) of the gay/atheist songwriter Cole Porter by listening to his irreverent song "Experiment." Then, we speak with professor David C. Hoffman, author of American Freethought: The History of a Social Movement, 1794-1948.
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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 imagine all the people living for today i'm Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore and happy Pride Month. |
| 1:02.5 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:04.0 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:09.6 | And this is June. This is the June 5th, 2025 episode of Free Thought |
| 1:14.6 | Radio, recording in the Stephen Ull-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, our national headquarters |
| 1:20.9 | in Madison, Wisconsin. And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the freedom from Religion foundation, emphasis on from, and FFRF based, as you can tell on our name, works to keep religion out of government, as is required by our secular constitution. |
| 1:38.4 | And we also represent the growing number of individuals in North America who are personally free from religion, |
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| 2:13.9 | So this is Free Thought Radio, and we typically refer to FFRF members as free thinkers. |
| 2:19.8 | But what is that word? |
| 2:21.7 | That's actually a word that goes back centuries. |
| 2:24.6 | It's an umbrella term that includes atheists, agnostic, secular humanists, doubters, and so on, |
| 2:31.7 | and that we at FFRF have helped to repopularize. |
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