Enlightenment Now
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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FFRF's 40th annual convention was a great success! Nonbelief Relief announces $100,000+ in charity to victims of hurricanes Harvey and Irma. We discuss FFRF's amended complaint in our lawsuit challenging President Trump's unconstitutional Executive Order that he claims now allows churches to engage in political activity. Then we hear from FFRF's Honorary President Steven Pinker, the Harvard professor of psychology and prolific author, who gave FFRF his first speech and interview about his new book, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people |
| 0:41.3 | living for today Well, as that song signals, it's fall. Welcome to Free Thought Radio, and I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:16.0 | And actually, as we record, the show today is the last full day of summer, and tomorrow, September 22nd, is the autumnal equinox, the first official day of fall. Although it's unseasonably warm |
| 1:31.4 | where we're recording, the fall colors are already putting on quite a show. And that's |
| 1:35.8 | Errol Garner playing the song, September song. I'm Dan Barker, and this is September 21st, |
| 1:43.5 | 2017 edition of Freeethought Radio. |
| 1:46.7 | Buzz Kemper is engineering in the Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:52.5 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:59.0 | And Freethought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 2:03.1 | and we have two purposes. |
| 2:04.6 | We work to keep religion out of government as required under our secular and godless U.S. Constitution, |
| 2:11.3 | the Establishment Clause. |
| 2:12.9 | And we also serve as the nations and actually North America's largest association of free thinkers, |
| 2:20.1 | atheists, agnostics, and skeptics of whatever persuasion. |
| 2:24.3 | Later on today's show, we'll have a sneak preview of the upcoming book by Stephen Pinker. |
| 2:31.3 | Stephen Pinker is one of the great intellectuals of our day. |
| 2:40.0 | He's a Harvard professor, author of the groundbreaking books like The Blank Slate. And also, he's kindly serving as FFRF's first honorary president. |
| 2:46.0 | And he's got a new book coming out in February right down our alley. It's called Enlightenment Now. What a slogan that is Enlightenment Now. Stephen Pinker gave a phenomenal |
| 2:56.6 | talk last weekend at our conference, our 40th annual convention of Freedom from Religion Foundation |
| 3:02.5 | and giving our membership the sneak preview, the first look at the contents of his book, in which he documents |
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