Celebrate Dissent

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Guest: Sami Abdallah. Christian nationalism is now proudly rearing its head in the United States. FFRF Senior Litigation Counsel Patrick Elliott describes the friend-of-the-court brief we filed at the Supreme Court in the "303 Creative" case where a business owner wants to discriminate against LGBTQ customers on religious grounds. Then, we speak with Sami Abdallah, co-founder and president of Freethought Lebanon and co-organizer of the "Celebrating Dissent" conference that took place in Cologne, Germany, this month, about the challenges of being an apostate in the Muslim world.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:09.0	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
0:33.6	Above us only sky
0:51.1	Imagine all the people Above us only sky. Welcome to Pith Out Radio.
0:53.3	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and happy women's equality date.
0:57.4	That's tomorrow, isn't it, August the 26th.
1:00.3	And I'm Dan Barker.
1:01.6	Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:07.0	And this is the August 25th, 2022 edition of Freethought Radio.
1:13.5	Grant Blashka, with Audio for the Arts, is our engineer,
1:17.9	in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall.
1:22.9	Freethought Hall is the national office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:29.7	And our radio show, Freethought Radio, is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion
1:35.0	Foundation. Regular listeners know we have two purposes at FFRF to keep religion out of government,
1:42.4	to get religion out of government at this point,
1:45.4	and to represent the views of those of us who are now 29% of the population in the United States
1:51.4	who are not religious, not all of them consider themselves atheists.
1:56.6	We have members who prefer many other opulations, but we like to joke we all disbelieve in the same gods.
2:03.6	And you can learn more about FFRF in our work at our website, FFRF.org.
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