Day of Reason
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We have some good state/church news to report out of Oklahoma and Arizona. Then, in response to Trump's remarks at the May 1 "National Day of Prayer," we celebrate the May 4 "National Day of Reason" by hearing impassioned and humorous remarks at the Second Annual "Reason Reception" in D.C., sponsored by FFRF, American Humanist Association and the Secular Coalition for America, for the Congressional Freethought Caucus. The "Very Funny Lady" comedian Leighann Lord kicked off the event, followed by U.S. Reps. Jared Huffman, Calif., Jamie Raskin, Md., Laura Friedman, Calif., and a poignant keynote by former Rep. Susan Wild, Pa.
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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. |
| 0:19.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
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| 0:59.6 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:01.3 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:02.8 | Welcome to radio for the rest of us. |
| 1:06.1 | Andy Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. This is the May 8th, 2025 episode of |
| 1:15.1 | Free Thought Radio, recorded in the Stephen O'Friendly Atheist studio in Freethought Hall, the National |
| 1:21.1 | Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. And Freedom from Religion Foundation produces this weekly show, Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:31.5 | And FFRF, as some of you may not know, is the nation's largest association of free thinkers, |
| 1:37.9 | meaning atheists agnostics primarily, with a second very important purpose of keeping religion out of government as our |
| 1:46.8 | secular and godless constitution requires and that's quite a duty these days and we would love |
| 1:53.0 | to have you join our 42,000 other members by going to ffherf.org. 42,000 plus, almost 43,000 now. |
| 2:02.8 | The unconstitutional national day of prayer occurred last week, |
| 2:08.6 | but it was followed by the National Day of Reason, |
| 2:13.5 | and that was celebrated with the second annual reason reception that took place in Washington, D.C. last week. |
| 2:21.9 | Annie Laurie and I were there, and on today's show we're going to enjoy some of the speeches and the camaraderie at the reason reception, |
| 2:29.6 | which was co-sponsored by the Freedom from Religion Foundation and two other free thought groups |
| 2:34.7 | and is in honor of the Congressional Free Thought Caucus members and their staff. |
| 2:41.7 | And it was a lovely event, many congressional aides in attendance, and we'll be hearing from |
| 2:46.3 | Congressman Jared Huffman and Jamie Raskin, former Congresswoman Susan Wilde, and the MC, |
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