Backlash
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Guest: Kate Cohen. This week we describe some of the ways FFRF is lashing back against Christian nationalism. After hearing the sobering but optimistic song "In a Dark Time" (words by Philip Appleman, music by Dan Barker), we speak with Washington Post columnist Kate Cohen about her June 30 article: "As the court forces Christianity on America, it's time for atheists to speak out."
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.3 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.7 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.9 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. |
| 0:52.3 | Welcome, Irreverent Ones. |
| 0:55.4 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and this is Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:59.4 | And I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:05.1 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:11.3 | This is the July 7th, 2022 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:16.5 | Graham Blaschka, who's with the recording studio Audio for the Arts, |
| 1:22.4 | is our engineer in the Stephen Ull-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:28.9 | Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:34.3 | Free That Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, as regular listeners know, and we have those two vital purposes of keeping religion out of government |
| 1:40.6 | and out of social policy and educating you, the the public about the views of non-theists, |
| 1:47.4 | those of us who are personally free from religion. |
| 1:50.9 | If you are a member, thank you, and if not, we would love to have you join us or look for information |
| 1:55.8 | at our website, ffref.org. |
| 1:58.1 | You can request a sample of our newspaper in a brochure about all of the important work we do to defend the First Amendment. |
| 2:06.2 | As individuals, we are personally free from religion, but we also think the government should be officially free from religion as well. |
| 2:13.5 | So does the Constitution, by the way, despite our current Supreme Court, the Constitution |
| 2:17.9 | thinks that too. |
| 2:19.1 | We feel like we're being very patriotic. |
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