Disbelief
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Project 2025 and "divine intervention" are discussed, as well as state/church complaints and victories in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Illinois, New Jersey and Tennessee. FFRF Anne Nicol Gaylor Legal Fellow Sammi Lawrence joins us to talk about our legal victory allowing a nonreligious after-school group to meet on campus alongside the religious Good News Club in Memphis, Tenn. Then, we talk with evolutionary psychologist Will M. Gervais about his new book Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species.
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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 |
| 0:39.3 | Only sky |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:53.3 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and these are all very nice things to imagine. |
| 1:01.0 | And we also want to keep freedom alive by ending Project 2025. |
| 1:08.0 | And we'll be talking about that and more today. |
| 1:10.9 | And I'm Dan Barker. Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:18.6 | This is the July 25th, 2024 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:24.0 | Our producer is Leo Costello, and our engineer is Torrey Neels with audio for the arts. |
| 1:31.4 | And we're recording Free Thought Radio in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:39.2 | Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:46.4 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. I always |
| 1:51.6 | emphasize that word from, because there can be no true religious liberty without the freedom |
| 1:57.5 | to dissent. That means you cannot have religion established government. |
| 2:02.6 | And that's what we work for as a state church watchdog. |
| 2:05.6 | And we also represent those of you who are personally free from religion, numbering 40,000 |
| 2:11.6 | current members, but among the nuns, NONES, almost a third of the adult population today is religiously unaffiliated, |
| 2:20.4 | and we'd like you to come on over and join the rest of us at ffruf.org. Most of the members of |
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