Buddhist nationalism

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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FFRF Director of Communications Amitabh Pal joins us as we interview journalist and author Sonia Faleiro about her book "The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism is Shaping Modern Asia."

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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
0:41.3	Above us only sky
0:47.3	Imagine all the people
0:53.3	living for today.
0:58.5	Nothing fails like prayer.
1:01.8	Nothing fails like prayer.
1:08.7	Use your mind and you will find that nothing fails like prayer.
1:11.7	Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Galore.
1:17.1	That's our rejoinder to the unconstitutional National Day of Prayer,
1:23.2	a date set by Congress for the first Thursday in May, which is today.
1:32.0	And that's my co-host's song, Nothing Feels Like Prayer, immortalizing the wise words of Anne Gaylor, FFRF's principal founder.
1:40.5	And FFRF is the Freedom from Religion Foundation. I'm Dan Barker. Annie Lorry and I are co-presidents of FFRF.
1:56.1	This is the May 7th, 2026 episode of Free Thought Radio, recording in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, which is the national headquarters of FFRF in Madison, Wisconsin. And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which regular listeners know has two purposes.
2:04.3	To educate the public, that's you, about the views of those of us who are personally free from religion,
2:10.8	atheists, agnostic, skeptics, secular humanists, whatever you call yourself, we all disbelieve in the same gods.
2:17.0	We have over 41,000 members, and we work very hard to keep religion out of government as our secular constitution dictates.
2:27.1	And you can join us if you're not already a member at ffrf.org.
2:33.1	There's a lot of religions in the world, and we usually think of Buddhism as a relatively
2:39.5	peaceful, compassionate, and nonviolent religion.
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