Apostate Report
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week, we report state/church victories in Colorado and Pennsylvania. After hearing poems by feminist, activist and atheist Sherry Matulis— "Religion's Child" and "Benediction," set to music by Dan Barker— we talk with Pakistani-American Muhammad Syed, co-founder and president of Ex Muslims of North America (EXMNA), about the new and unique "Apostate Report" that surveyed hundreds of former Muslims who have left Islam.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people living for today |
| 0:50.3 | Welcome to Freet Thought Radio. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and that of course is the famous John Lennon Imagine. |
| 0:56.9 | It's something that we don't pay attention to because we start the show every week with it, but it's got such lovely words. |
| 1:03.5 | No hell below us, above us only sky. I'm Dan Barker. I'm co-host with Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:10.3 | This is Free Thought Radio for July the 8th, |
| 1:14.1 | 2021. I know some of you are listening to it after this date, a few days later, but July the 8th. |
| 1:20.9 | Our engineer today is Grant Blaschka. He's producing the show in the Stephen Yule, friendly |
| 1:27.0 | atheist studio, in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:30.5 | Free Thought Hall is the national office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
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| 1:42.6 | We've been going since 2006 as a radio show, and FFRF itself went national in 1978. |
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| 1:56.2 | who are personally free from religion, and to keep the government, the U.S. government, free from religion |
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| 2:27.1 | campaigning for the separation of religion and government. |
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