From Saved to Sane

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We talk about the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the Mississippi abortion law case, including Justice Sonia Sotomayor's eloquent plea for women over religious doctrine. Reproductive Rights Intern Barbara Alvarez reads the poignant letter she has written to Sotomayor. Then we speak with Willie O. Cartwright about his new book, From Saved to Sane: My Journey Away from Christianity and Why Christianity Has Been Detrimental to the African American Community.

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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.
0:13.5	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:20.0	It's easy if you try
0:22.6	No hell below us
0:33.6	Above us only sky
0:36.6	Imagine all the people Above us only sky.
0:48.3	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:52.7	Welcome to Free Thought Radio.
1:13.3	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and it's good to be over the air and podcasting to the community of freethinkers at this time when the U.S. Supreme Court, which has been captured on behalf of Christian nationalists, is playing political football with women's lives and rights and threatening also the separation between religion and government.
1:16.7	And we'll talk more about that in a minute. I'm Dan Barker. This is the December 2nd,
1:22.2	2021 edition of Free Thought Radio. Grant Belashka is engineering in the Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio
1:29.4	in Freethought Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation
1:34.0	in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:36.1	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and
1:40.7	those of you who are regular listeners know, we have two purposes to educate the public about the views of those of you who are regular listeners know we have two purposes to educate the
1:45.9	public about the views of those of us who are personally free from religion, and to work diligently
1:53.0	to uphold the constitutional principle of separation between church and state that is embedded in
1:59.9	the godless constitution of the United States.
2:03.2	And if you're a member, thank you. If not, we'd love to have you join us or ask for a
2:07.5	complimentary copy of our newspaper and a brochure about our 40-plus years of activism at
2:13.6	f-fr-f.org.
2:16.8	That's f-FRF, like freedom from religion foundation.org.
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