"Census on Religion"
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Proselytizing deputies, anti-abortion lawmakers, sexual predators, praying judges — FFRF is fighting them. After hearing irreverent humor from the comedians Robin Williams and Phyllis Diller, we talk with Robert P. Jones, CEO of Public Religion Research Institute, about the organization's new unprecedented county-by-county "2020 Census on Religion in America" showing that while religion is shrinking, the nonreligious percentage is holding steady.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try |
| 0:23.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:48.3 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:54.6 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, Atheist of the Airwaves. |
| 0:59.9 | This is the July 15th, 2021 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:05.0 | Once again, Grant Blaschka of Audio for the Arts as our engineer. |
| 1:10.3 | He's producing the show in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:17.3 | This building is the national office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:24.0 | And the Freedom from Religion Foundation does produce this weekly radio show and podcast, Free Thought Radio, |
| 1:31.5 | one of just many things that FFRF does as the nation's largest association of free thinkers. |
| 1:39.8 | That's atheist, agnostic, skeptics, whatever you like to call yourself. |
| 1:43.3 | And we work diligently to keep religion out of government, just like our secular constitution requires. |
| 1:51.7 | And we'd love to have you join us if you're not already with us at fFRF.org. |
| 1:57.2 | My brother Darrell sent me a joke. |
| 1:59.7 | Actually, it's not a joke, but he sent me a joke that says, COVID is no joke. One former patient was so brain damaged after surviving COVID that he thought he won an election that he actually lost by 7 million votes. |
| 2:17.4 | Who could that be? |
| 2:18.5 | That's not a joke, by the way. |
| 2:20.7 | So we're going to have some serious things to talk about on our show today. |
| 2:23.8 | In the second half of the show, we're going to talk about the 2020 census, not the official U.S. census, but the new unprecedented 2020 census on religion, which was conducted by PRRI, the Public |
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