Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We celebrate International Blasphemy Day by highlighting challenges to Christian Nationalism and the violation of state/church separation by senators and governors. Former Mormon Ray Matthews tells us why he now appears on FFRF's "I'm an Atheist and I Vote" billboard in Salt Lake City. Then we speak with Adrienne Martin, who testified before her Texas school board in protest of religiously motivated book banning in the public schools.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.0 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and to Rational Radio and blasphemous broadcasting. |
| 0:57.7 | And I would point out that tomorrow, a Friday, September 30th, is International Blasphemy Day. |
| 1:05.2 | And I'm Dan Barker and can I say something, blasphemous? |
| 1:09.8 | Blasphemy is a victimless crime. |
| 1:13.4 | Well, is that blasphemous? |
| 1:14.6 | Isn't that just true? |
| 1:16.0 | Well, yeah. |
| 1:16.7 | I think that you'd have to swear or curse God or something a little more dramatic, Dan. |
| 1:23.1 | To assume that. |
| 1:23.9 | God is dead, something like that. |
| 1:26.7 | Hail Satan. |
| 1:30.6 | Okay, but saying it's victimist and saying there is no God, |
| 1:35.6 | and that's blasphemous itself, I think. Most of the members of the Freedom from Religion Foundation are atheists and agnostics. Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:42.6 | And we're atheists. |
| 1:49.1 | This is the September 29th, 2022 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:56.4 | Grant Blaschka with Audio for the Arts is our engineer in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio, |
| 2:03.9 | right here in Freethought Hall in the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 2:08.8 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 2:14.9 | which has those two purposes of educating the public, that's you, about non-theism, |
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