Beyond Belief
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We unveil a national "Secular Vote" campaign. Mandisa Thomas, president of Black Nonbelievers, tells us about the upcoming Women of Color Beyond Belief conference in Chicago. Then UK psychotherapist Jimmy Bangash, an ex-Muslim gay atheist, describes Islamic discrimination and persecution for blasphemy, apostasy and homosexuality.
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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. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 1:02.7 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome all you secularists who know that a secular government free from religion is a necessity to safeguard all individual liberties. |
| 1:09.9 | And so we must all celebrate and safeguard the godless and entirely secular U.S. Constitution. |
| 1:14.2 | And Constitution Day is Saturday, September 17th, |
| 1:21.2 | that marks the 235th anniversary of the signing of our secular constitution. |
| 1:27.8 | And we're going to talk more about that in our exciting national secular voter campaign later on the show. |
| 1:31.8 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:36.9 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:41.8 | This is the September 15th edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:47.0 | Grant Blasca is our engineer today. He's with Audio for the Arts. |
| 1:52.6 | He's in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio right here in Freethought Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:57.0 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, where we tell you what we've done in the past week and comment on all of the relevant news of the week. FFRF has two purposes to keep religion out of government, out of social policy. We seem to be having a lot of trouble making sure that happens right now in the United |
| 2:18.9 | States. And out of bedrooms. Out of bedrooms, out of our lives. And we also educate you, |
| 2:24.7 | the public, about the views of non-believers. And we have some exciting news on that front |
| 2:29.8 | that we'll talk about also the growth of the N-O-N-E-S, the Nuns. |
| 2:35.2 | And if you want more information and you want to join our 38,000 members strong group, |
| 2:39.7 | please go to f-F-R-F dot org. |
| 2:42.7 | I think it's almost 39,000, and last time I checked the numbers. |
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