DISINVITED: Recovering From Religion and St. John's Pride

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The Thinking Atheist

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

RFR has been disinvited to participate as a vendor at the "in the park" event after the St. John's Pride parade Sunday July 20th. The reasons make no sense.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we got. Stand by. Three, two, one.
0:04.6	The thinking atheist, it's not a person. It's a symbol. An idea.
0:10.6	The population of atheists in this country is going through the room.
0:14.0	Rejecting faith. Pursuing knowledge. Challenging the sacred.
0:18.6	If I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth,
0:21.6	not because I put my hand on a book and made a wish.
0:25.6	And working together for a more rational world.
0:28.6	Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
0:30.6	Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.
0:34.6	Assume nothing.
0:36.6	Question everything. Assume nothing. Question everything.
0:39.4	And start thinking.
0:42.2	This is the Thinking Atheist podcast, hosted by Seth Andrews.
1:00.3	This is just a little short-form broadcast, a bonus this week.
1:06.8	It's a conversation I just had on video with Blake Collett of recovering from religion.
1:16.4	And this is kind of a timely thing about an event that is happening in three days that RFR has been disinvited to.
1:20.9	So anyway, if you want to click the YouTube link to watch, that is in the show notes.
1:22.1	Otherwise, here we go.
1:33.3	There is some controversy about an event that is happening north of our border here in the United States.
1:41.4	And it has to do with a pride event and recovering from religion, one of my favorite organizations' periods.
1:48.7	And certainly they have been pro-LGBT, and yet they are being denied access to a pride events in Canada.
1:50.9	I want to get the details on that, so I'm talking to Blake Collett, an ambassador for RFR.
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