Celebrating Dissent

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Guest: Maryam Namazie. Abortion, politicians blaming gun violence on godlessness, secular billboards and the growth of support for state/church separation are among the news topics we discuss this week. After listening to a sneak preview of the new "Godless Gospel" songs, we speak with Iranian-born ex-Muslim activist Maryam Namazie about the international "Celebrate Dissent" conference she is organizing, which will take place in August in Cologne, Germany.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:09.3	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:13.7	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:19.5	It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky.
0:48.2	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:52.5	Welcome to Fythar Radio.
0:58.2	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and happy Juneteenth and happy summer solstice.
1:05.7	June 10th is on Sunday, June 19th, celebrating the end of slavery.
1:11.9	And it is now recognized as a federal holiday, which will be observed on Monday, June 20th. And our office was already observing Juneteenth as a holiday before Biden made it a federal holiday.
1:18.6	And the summer solstice is coming up on Tuesday, June 21st.
1:22.8	And as I always like to say, at least in modern religions, we do not see patriarchal religions taking over the
1:30.4	summer solstice for their own religious purposes. It's the longest day of daylight in the
1:36.8	northern hemisphere, and that's enough to celebrate. And I'm Dan Barker. I'm co-host with Andy
1:43.2	Lori Gaylor, and this is the June 16th episode of Freethought Radio.
1:48.4	It's our 842nd show since we started. Grant Blashka, with Audio for the Arts, is engineering in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation
2:01.6	in Madison, Wisconsin.
2:04.0	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
2:08.2	It's one of our many campaigns and projects.
2:12.1	We work as a diligent state church watchdog to keep religion out of government and social policy.
2:19.4	And we serve as the nation's largest, really North American's largest association of
2:24.4	free thinkers. That means atheists, agnostic, skeptics, non-believers. And whether you're a
2:30.6	non-believer listening to this or just curious, we're glad you're listening, and we have those two purposes, and you can find out more about us at ffrf.org.
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