Decrying the dangers
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Besides covering state/church issues in Kentucky, Wisconsin and Arizona, most of the news is out of Oklahoma, including the fact that Oklahoma's Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters is suing FFRF for allegedly interfering in the right of his office to promote religion in the public schools. FFRF Legal Director Patrick Elliott joins us to talk about that case, Walters v. FFRF. Three smart young people read their winning entries in FFRF's freethinking student essay contests. Then, we hear an excerpt of a speech by former New York Times columnist and MSNBC political analyst Charles Blow decrying the dangers of Christian nationalism.
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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 |
| 0:41.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:47.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:54.9 | living for today. Hello. Welcome to Prethot Radio. |
| 1:13.9 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and we're going to be asking, |
| 1:16.4 | Is Oklahoma Okay? |
| 1:18.4 | In a few minutes, we'll answer that question. |
| 1:20.2 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:21.9 | That music to Oklahoma, by the way, was written by an atheist, Richard Rogers. But it appears he may no longer be welcome |
| 1:31.3 | in that state, and we'll tell you why in a moment. Andy Laurie and I are co-presidents of the |
| 1:38.0 | Freedom from Religion Foundation, and this is the April 3rd, 2025 episode. |
| 1:45.9 | Leo Costello is our producer, |
| 1:49.6 | and Tori Neels with Audio for the Arts is our engineer in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:54.7 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation |
| 1:58.8 | in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 2:01.3 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of The Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 2:06.6 | emphasis on from, because there is no true religious freedom without the freedom to dissent |
| 2:12.7 | without keeping religion out of our government. |
| 2:16.1 | And FFF works for that purpose and we also |
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