From Faith to Freethought
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We report on FFRF's perfect score from Charity Navigator (and on the low score of the Catholic League, which is continuing its unfounded attacks on us). We play a shocking audio clip of prosperity evangelist Paula White, just promoted by Trump to a federally paid faith job at the White House, consecrating the White House for Jesus. We report that a federal employee was "Penced" for opposing the vice president's raid of USAID funds to go to favored Christian groups. After reciting some egregious state/church violations our legal team is fighting, we interview Megan Phelps-Roper, granddaughter of Fred Phelps, and the author of a poignant new book, Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.2 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.6 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.9 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. Welcome to Feed That Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is our November 9th, 2019 program. |
| 0:57.7 | This is a program devoted to those of you who are undevoted to religion, but devoted to keeping religion out of government. |
| 1:06.4 | My co-host, Dan Barker, is not co-hosting this week because he's at a writer's retreat in California. |
| 1:14.5 | He told me that I should say he's coming up with his next bestseller. |
| 1:18.6 | But subbing for Dan is Amit Paul, who is FFRF's Director of Communications, |
| 1:25.4 | formerly with the Progressive Magazine and an author himself. |
| 1:29.3 | Thanks for joining me today, Amit. |
| 1:31.5 | Thank you so much, Annie Laurie. |
| 1:32.9 | It's always a pleasure to host the show. |
| 1:35.9 | And I'm pleased to announce that Buzz Kemper, who I've been privileged to know since my progressive |
| 1:40.4 | years, is our engineer today, producing the show in the Stephen Yule, friendly |
| 1:45.3 | atheist studio in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation |
| 1:50.9 | right here in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:52.9 | And that's right. |
| 1:54.1 | I forgot that you would have known Buzz through the Progressive all these years, and the Progressive |
| 1:58.3 | Office was very close to Audio for the Arts. |
| 2:00.3 | Yes, and we used to head down there to do the radio recordings. |
| 2:05.1 | So, yeah, you're an old-handed this. |
| 2:07.6 | So Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
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