Christian Patriarchy
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Christian nationalist rhetoric is heating up, especially regarding the assassination attempt of Donald Trump. We report on a state/church victory in Tennessee and state/church complaints in New Mexico, Texas, Missouri, Kentucky and Indiana. After hearing a hilarious take on the bible by comedian Robin Williams, we speak with Cait West, author of the new book RIFT: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:14.6 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:18.6 | 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. |
| 0:40.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 1:00.8 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Galar, and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:08.0 | This is mid-July, and I'd often like to ask a lot of politicians, why July? |
| 1:23.8 | Why July? I get it. I'm Dan Barker. Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and this is the July 18th, 2024 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:31.0 | Leo Costello is our producer, and Tori Neels with Audio for the Arts is our engineer. |
| 1:36.8 | We're recording Freethought Radio in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:43.0 | the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. And the Freedom from Religion Foundation is the producer of our weekly show, Free Thought Radio. |
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| 2:00.0 | And we know that there can be no true freedom of religion without freedom from religion, |
| 2:06.6 | particularly freedom from religion in government. |
| 2:09.6 | And we'd love to have you join us if you're not one of our 40,000 members at ffrf.org. |
| 2:16.6 | Today we're going to talk with a woman who was raised in the Christian purity movement, |
| 2:24.2 | where women are taught to be completely subservient to fathers and to male authority. |
| 2:31.5 | Kate West is the author of the new book, Rift, a memoir of breaking away from Christian |
| 2:38.9 | patriarchy. This Sunday is the anniversary of the birth of the comedian and actor Robin Williams, |
| 2:46.0 | born July 21st, 1959. In a few minutes, we're going to hear one of his hilarious takes on a particular story |
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