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Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Theocrats are active in our federal government and also from beyond the moon! After FFRF staff attorney Sammi Lawrence describes recent state/church victories, we honor the life, words and legacy of Ishmael Jaffree, whose 1985 Supreme Court victory removed prayer and bible reading from public schools.

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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
0:41.3	Above us only sky
0:47.3	Imagine all the people
0:56.0	living for today Yeah Ah
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1:09.0	And Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Galar, and that song, of course, is Fly Me to the Moon,
1:21.2	and we are playing it because the astronauts on NASA's Artemis II mission around the moon
1:26.9	will be arriving back on Earth tomorrow.
1:30.2	Thanks to science.
1:31.7	Thanks to science.
1:33.5	And NASA is over the moon.
1:37.2	We all are.
1:38.2	I'm Dan Barker.
1:39.3	Annie, Lori, and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:47.8	This is the April 9th, 2026 episode of Free Thought Radio, recording in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Free Thought Hall, which is
1:53.7	the national headquarters of FFRF in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:58.4	And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
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