Black Disbelief
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We celebrate the 96th birthday of the Broadway composer Charles Strouse, a lifelong atheist, by hearing the protest song he wrote for the musical "Golden Boy," "No More," sung by Sammy Davis Jr. We also reprise part of our 2009 interview with Strouse. Then we speak with Professor Anthony B. Pinn about his new book, The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of Black Nonbelievers.
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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. |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:58.7 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:01.2 | Happy early Juneteenth. |
| 1:02.9 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:07.5 | Juneteenth, of course, is Wednesday, June 19th. |
| 1:15.8 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and this is the June 13th, 2024 episode of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:20.0 | Torrey Neals is our engineer today. |
| 1:23.1 | She's with Audio for the Arts. |
| 1:25.2 | She's in the Stephen U.S.L. Stephen U., Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:31.0 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:36.7 | And Freethought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:41.1 | which works to keep religion out of government and in its own place |
| 1:45.4 | where it belongs and not in our government laws and social policy. And we also represent the |
| 1:51.6 | views of the significant number of individuals today who are personally free from religion. |
| 1:57.1 | We're a membership group. So if you like what we do, please join us at |
| 2:01.8 | ffrof.org. Are all African-Americans deeply religious churchgoers? Hardly. In the second half of today's |
| 2:12.3 | show, we're going to talk with Anthony Pinn, author of the new book, The Black Practice of Disbelief, an introduction to the |
| 2:20.7 | principles, history, and communities of black non-believers. And before that, we'll celebrate |
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