Atheists in Africa
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Emily Olson, a very brave member of the Owosso, Michigan city council, tells us what happened when she challenged prayer at board meetings. Then we speak with the founder and president of Atheists in Kenya Harrison Mumia about that group's successful lawsuit challenging government discrimination against atheists and their activities to promote human rights in a country drenched with religion.
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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. |
| 0:20.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:26.1 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.8 | No hell below us. |
| 0:56.8 | Above us only sky imagine all the people living for today. Hello and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore and greetings of the new year. |
| 1:03.9 | And let's make it a collective New Year's resolution to make 2024 a truly secular new year by doing everything. We can, you can, I can |
| 1:15.8 | to protect our endangered secular democracy. And I can tell you, FFRF will certainly be pulling out |
| 1:23.3 | all the stops to do so. And I'm Dan Barker. Annie, Lori, and I are co-presidents of the FFRF that she just mentioned. |
| 1:32.0 | That's the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:35.1 | And this is our first Free Thought Radio show of the new year, January 4th, 2024. |
| 1:41.6 | Torrey Neels with Audio for the Art is engineering the show in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:54.0 | And Freethought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and FFRF was created nationally in 1978 to be a state church |
| 2:04.8 | watchdog and a national association of freethinkers, meaning atheist, agnostics, rationalists, |
| 2:11.2 | whatever you like to call yourselves. We all disbelieve in the same gods, and we have grown from the |
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| 2:18.8 | and we work very hard to keep religion out of government, and we hope if you're not a member, |
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| 2:26.5 | Today, we're going to talk about Africa. |
| 2:28.9 | In the second half of the show, we'll speak with Harrison Mumia. |
| 2:33.5 | He's the founder and president of the largest and most active atheist group in Africa, |
| 2:40.3 | atheists in Kenya. |
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