Evangelical Threat
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Tis the season to report on state/church entanglements, as well as state/church victories. This week we listen to professor Anthea Butler, author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America and contributor to the 1619 Project, deliver her "Do Mess With Texas" speech at FFRF's 45th annual convention in San Antonio, warning us about religious threats to democracy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.3 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.7 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.9 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.2 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.3 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:54.2 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore. |
| 1:00.9 | And I'm Dan Barker. Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:06.1 | This is the December 8th, 2022 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:19.9 | Grant Blasca, with Audio for the Arts, is engineering the show in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio here in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:29.1 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and we have two purposes at FFRF, to get religion out of government, |
| 1:35.8 | to, in other words, support our secular constitution, which separates religion from government, and to educate the public about the views of those of us who are non-believers. |
| 1:40.7 | So FFRF serves as a national association, a membership association of Freethinkers, |
| 1:47.6 | atheists and agnastics primarily. And you can get more information, including a copy of our |
| 1:52.6 | excellent December issue of our newspaper, Freethadat Today, edited by PJ Slinger. |
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| 2:13.7 | as John Lennon said. |
| 2:15.6 | Later in today's show, |
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