Everyday Crusade
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The good, the bad, and the ugly: Texas Ten Commandments bill fails; anti-abortion laws proliferate; Illinois reports widespread clergy sex abuse; proselytizing school bus driver; legislative prayer; graduations in churches. After we hear Dan Barker's song "The Freethinker Blues," FFRF's Director of Communications Amit Pal joins us to interview Professor Irfan Nooruddin, co-author of The Everyday Crusade: Christian Nationalism in American Politics.
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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 |
| 0:22.8 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:41.3 | Living for today |
| 0:47.3 | Ah Oh Hi, don't the wicked dead Witcho witch or wicked bitch |
| 1:08.8 | And ding dong don't the wicked bill dead, the wicked bill is dead. |
| 1:14.4 | We're celebrating the demise of that Texas bill earlier this week that would have required |
| 1:19.8 | posting large versions of the Ten Commandments in every single classroom in Texas, |
| 1:26.0 | and more about that in a minute. |
| 1:27.7 | And I'm Dan Barker, co-host, a Freethought Radio. |
| 1:30.5 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:35.7 | And this is the May 25th, 2023 episode. |
| 1:40.0 | Grant Blaschka, who's with Audio for the Arts, is our engineer in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:47.6 | the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:52.0 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of The Freedom From Religion Foundation, emphasis on from. |
| 1:59.6 | That's what's required by our godless constitution, which separates religion and government. |
| 2:04.8 | And FFRF has two purposes to promote that constitutional separation and to educate the public, |
| 2:12.4 | that is you, about the views of the growing numbers of us who are personally free from religion. That's 30% |
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