eXvangelical Journey

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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After reporting state-church news at the federal level, as well as in Massachusetts, Texas and Missouri, we hear riveting testimony from Georgia state Rep. Karen Lupton opposing a hateful Christian-nationalist anti-trans bill in that state. Then, former evangelical preacher Rob Haskell, author of God of the Mind: An eXvangelical Journey, tells us why he left the ministry and became an atheist.

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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 only sky
0:41.3	imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today.
0:58.8	Hello and welcome to Free Thought Radio.
1:02.1	I'm Annie Laurie Galore and happy spring.
1:04.0	Happy spring indeed.
1:10.1	I'm Dan Barker, Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:14.4	This is the March 20th, 2025 episode of Free Thought Radio. Our producer is Leo Costello. And our engineer from Audio for the Arts is
1:23.6	Tori Neels. We're recording Freethought Radio in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall,
1:31.5	which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:37.1	And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:43.3	which works to keep religion out of government as our
1:46.1	secular and godless constitution in the United States requires. And we also represent those of
1:51.6	you who are personally free from religion, regardless of what you call yourself an atheist,
1:56.4	agnostic, skeptic, humanist. We all disbelieve in the same gods. And we have over 42,000 members, and we would
2:02.8	love to have you join us today at ffrf.org. Did you know that many ministers and priests have
2:10.5	serious doubts about their faith? In the second half of today's show, we'll speak with Rob Haskell.
2:24.3	He's a former evangelical preacher who is now an atheist, and he will tell us why. And Dan, you're also a former evangelical minister who is now an atheist, so you too will have a lot to talk about.
2:31.3	And before that, we're going to hear some riveting testimony by a Georgia
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