Breaking the Shackles
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The first half of our show this week deals with the many Christian nationalist executive orders and actions of the Trump administration. We hear part of the "Stop Project 2025" rally in Madison, Wis. Then, we listen to Black/Latino atheist actor Jon Huertas, best known for playing Miguel Rivas in NBC's "This is Us," as he spoke to FFRF's Denver convention about "True Freedom: Breaking The Shackles Of Religious Indoctrination."
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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. |
| 0:58.8 | Hello and welcome to Free That Radio. |
| 1:00.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. Happy February, but I'm not very happy. |
| 1:03.3 | We're already reeling from only the first two weeks of the Trump administration, |
| 1:09.4 | or should I call it, the new Trump regime. |
| 1:11.6 | And we'll talk more about that later. |
| 1:13.6 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:15.4 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:20.5 | This is the February 6th, 2025 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:26.0 | Our producer is Leo Costello, and our engineer today is Noah Gilfillon with audio for the arts. |
| 1:34.4 | We're recording in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:38.8 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of The Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:44.9 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:49.2 | and we have over 40,000 dues-paying members of the Freedom from Religion Foundation |
| 1:55.5 | who are in the main personally free from religion. |
| 1:59.2 | And this goes with our other purpose, which is to keep the government free from religion. And this goes with our other purpose, which is to keep the |
| 2:03.0 | government free from religion, as is required under our godless and secular constitution, no matter |
| 2:09.8 | what Donald Trump says. And we have never been in more of a battle to retain the secular nature |
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