Eradicate Superstition

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Are clergy "essential" workers? FFRF is complaining about favoritism to religion during the coronavirus pandemic. Our comfort music this week is "Smile," written by the freethinking Charlie Chaplin. FFRF Director of Communications Amit Pal joins us as we talk by phone from locked-down India with Avinash Patil, the courageous executive president of the Organization to Eradicate Superstition in Maharashtra, India, whose founding president Narendra Dabholkar was murdered by religious fanatics.

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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	Above us only sky
0:41.3	Imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today
1:01.2	Welcome to Fre Thought Radio on this last day of April.
1:08.2	It's a beautiful day here in Madison, Wisconsin, but we will be calling out May Day, May Day,
1:11.2	on some national state church violations.
1:18.2	And I'm Dan Barker. This is the April 30th, 2020 edition of Free Thought Radio, which means tomorrow is May Day, May 1st. Annie, Lori and I are hosting this show from our makeshift
1:25.9	recording studio in our home during the time of the coronavirus.
1:29.3	And Buzz Camper is producing the show again from his own recording studio,
1:34.3	Audio for the Arts, in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, just about three miles from here.
1:41.3	And it looks, it's working pretty well. We have this makeshift studio in our little, your little office stand upstairs in our house.
1:49.7	And we actually have two sandwich trays facing each other and that's kind of nice.
1:53.8	Usually we don't get to face each other.
1:55.7	It's all, we're all set up very nicely here.
1:58.0	And Buzz, we can see out the window here, Buzz.
2:00.2	Can you see out anything where you are?
2:02.4	No, I don't have a very good view, but I did ride my bicycle past your house this morning,
2:08.0	and I waved as I came to the studio. The tulips and daffodils waved back. I thought I felt something
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