Combating the threats
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
"Christian nationalism" is being mentioned more and more in the news: Religious right-wing Christian members of Congress and candidates for public office are openly embracing the divisive concept. After hearing the very moving ad by "Mothers Against Greg Abbott" (opposing the Texas abortion ban) and the song "Heaven" set to a Rupert Brooke poem, we hear Bangladeshi-American author, activist and producer Bonya Ahmed describe how she is promoting science and freethought in Bangladesh and the rest of the world.
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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. |
| 0:19.9 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.2 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:51.1 | Imagine that. |
| 0:52.6 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:58.7 | And hello, all you non-Christian, non-nationalists. And I'm Dan Barker, also a non-Christian, non-nationalist, but proudly patriotic, non-believing American. |
| 1:08.1 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:13.5 | This is the July 28th, 2022 episode of Free Thought Radio. Grant Blashka, who's with the recording |
| 1:21.3 | studio Audio for the Arts, is our engineer in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:29.2 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:35.5 | And by the way, the music we're going to be hearing between breaks today is from a band |
| 1:40.1 | with which Grant Blaschka, our engineer, plays the bass. |
| 1:45.3 | It's a band called The Earthlings. |
| 1:48.1 | So Grant, what are we going to be hearing today? |
| 1:51.1 | Is this from an album? |
| 1:53.0 | Yeah, this is all going to be off of our upcoming album, titled Terra Obscira. |
| 1:59.5 | We're going to be releasing that on August 6th. So yeah, thank you for the opportunity to play some of it on the radio. |
| 2:07.5 | So this is a sneak preview then? |
| 2:10.1 | Yeah, actually, this is all unheard material. We've released one single, but none of the outroes are from that. |
| 2:19.5 | Are you emphasizing the bass part on these outroes? |
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