Breaking The Chains
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Kentucky student activist Lydia Mason, whose essay "Breaking The Chains" won FFRF's David Hudak Memorial Freethinking Students of Color High School Essay Competition, tells us about the challenges of being a minority within a minority in a highly religious state. Then we talk with a former preacher who is now the president of The Clergy Project, Drew Bekius. His new book, which narrates his exodus from the evangelical pulpit, is The Rise and Fall of Faith: A God-to-Godless Story for Christians and Atheists.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:18.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine all the people Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.2 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:51.4 | Welcome to Feed That Radio. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore. |
| 1:00.0 | Whether you are an unabashed atheist, an indifferent agnostic, or a happy humanist, |
| 1:06.3 | this show is for you and the rest of us, the growing population of non-religious Americans and those of you listening around the world who also dissent from religious dogma. |
| 1:13.3 | And I'm Dan Barker, and you can be more than just one of those things. |
| 1:17.3 | I can be an unabashed atheist and a happy humanist, right? |
| 1:21.4 | And an indifferent agnostic. |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah, we could be all or all the above, or whatever you want to call yourself as a non-believer. |
| 1:26.7 | Who believes in none of the above. None of the above, exactly. you want to call yourself as a non-believer. Who believes in none of the above? |
| 1:28.2 | None of the above, exactly. |
| 1:30.0 | So this is radio for the rest of us. |
| 1:32.7 | This is the July 6, 2017 edition of Free Thought Radio, produced in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist |
| 1:42.0 | Studio, and that studio is in Freethought Hall, which is the |
| 1:46.5 | National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:52.5 | Buzz Kemper, as usual, is our engineer for today's show. |
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