Fasten Your Seat Belts
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
FFRF sent a letter to president-elect Trump insisting that he not include religion in the inauguration, and that he drop "So help meGod" from the oath. Nonbelievers are vastly under-represented in Congress, and there will be a bumpy road for state church separation in 2017. FFRF attorney Andrew Seidel tells why Clemson University's football program proves that pious does not mean moral. Then we hear Bangladeshi-American Rafida Bonya Ahmed's speech describing how she narrowly survived an assassination attempt that killed her husband Avijit Roy because they are atheists who are critical of religion.
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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. |
| 0:17.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:23.6 | No hell below us above us only sky. |
| 0:48.6 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:53.9 | Welcome to Freethought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Galore. This is our first show of the new year. |
| 0:59.0 | And my advice is buckle your seatbelt. We're in for a bumpy four years. |
| 1:05.6 | I'm Dan Barker. This is the January 5th, 2017 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:11.7 | Steve Gotcher is our engineer, producing the show in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:19.3 | which are the national offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:26.4 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:30.5 | and the Freedom from Religion Foundation, as regular listeners know. |
| 1:34.7 | It works for separation of state and church, and also works as an association of free thinkers, |
| 1:40.2 | those of us who are like-minded non-believers. |
| 1:43.0 | Atheist agnostic skeptics, we like to say, |
| 1:46.8 | whatever we call ourselves, |
| 1:48.5 | we all disbelieve in the same God or gods. |
| 1:52.9 | This week is the birthday of the singer-songwriter, actor David Bowie. |
| 1:58.0 | He was born January 8, 1947 in South London. It'll be the one-year anniversary |
| 2:05.1 | of Bowie's death on January 10, 2016. David Bowie was raised with no religion, and he did dabble in |
| 2:15.2 | various religions during his life, but he ended up as a non-believer. |
| 2:19.5 | When he was asking a 2003 interview for beliefnet.com about his religious views, |
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