Disenfranchised

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Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We honor the life and legacy of "The Amazing" James Randi, who died this week at age 92, by listening to his entertaining 2008 interview on Freethought Radio. Then we speak with assistant professor of economics Randall Cragun, the lead plaintiff in FFRF's newest lawsuit challenging the disenfranchisement of atheists in Alabama. When Cragun was trying to register to vote, he could not sign the form containing the oath "so help me, God" because he does not believe in God.

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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.
0:25.6	It's easy if you try.
0:31.6	No hell below us.
0:39.3	Above us only sky
0:43.3	Imagine all the people
0:49.3	living for today.
1:15.4	Welcome to Fr Thought Radio.
1:22.8	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and that music, of course, is from the Opera Carmen by the non-religious George Bise.
1:29.7	We're going to talk about him in a few minutes, and let's consider this music to fight back from regarding the vote today by the Judiciary Committee to approve Amy Coney-Barrant for a full
1:37.6	vote by the Senate next week. We're in trouble but we're going to fight.
1:40.7	That does sound like fighting music. I'm Dan Barker. I'm co-host and co-president of the Freedom for Religion Foundation.
1:48.3	This is the October 22nd, 2020 edition of Free Thought Radio.
1:53.4	Annie, Lori, and I are again hosting from our safe at home studio in Madison, Wisconsin,
1:59.1	while Buzz Kemper again is engineering from Audio for the Arts.
2:05.1	That's his own recording studio down near the Wisconsin State Capitol.
2:09.9	And the Freedom from Religion Foundation produces this weekly podcast and radio show, Free Thought Radio.
2:16.6	And it's one of the many things that the Freedom
2:18.7	from Religion Foundation does as the nation's largest association in the United States of
2:24.6	Freethinkers, atheists, and agnostics working as a state church watchdog to defend that
2:31.1	very besieged wall of separation between state and church and to preserve
2:36.4	our godless and entirely secular constitution and we're in the fight of our lives.
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