Debating Religion
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We discuss the Supreme Court decision allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood and we decry many attempts by Christian nationalists to force religious conformity on a diverse nation. After celebrating the life of the irreverent comedian, actor, filmmaker, songwriter and playwright Mel Brooks (who turns 99 this month), we hear opening statements in two debates in the United Kingdom that FFRF co-presidents participated in. We hear the Opening Statement by Dan Barker in a debate at Oxford University on the topic: "This House Believes God Is a Delusion." Then we hear the Opening Statement by Annie Laurie Gaylor at Cambridge University on the topic: "This House Believes Religion and Feminism Are Incompatible."
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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. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 0:43.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Welcome to Prethought Radio. |
| 0:57.8 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore. |
| 0:59.7 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:01.9 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:07.7 | This is the June 26th, 2025 episode of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:13.4 | We're recording in the Stephen Ool friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:19.1 | which is the national headquarters of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:25.2 | And by the way, today's show is our 1,000th show. |
| 1:31.5 | Yeah, can you imagine? |
| 1:32.5 | Our first show was April 2006. |
| 1:36.1 | And that was 1,000 weeks ago. |
| 1:38.1 | Yep. |
| 1:38.8 | You think we'd be better at this, Dan. |
| 1:40.7 | Oh, well, we're getting there. |
| 1:42.5 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production. |
| 1:45.1 | Now the 1,000th week production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which works to |
| 1:51.7 | protect the constitutional wall of separation between church and state and to educate the |
| 1:57.0 | public about the views of non-believers and non-theists. |
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