Future of the World's Largest Secular Democracy
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Guest host Amitabh Pal, FFRF Communications Director, begins by talking about the various ways the Freedom From Religion Foundation is making waves: at Capitol Hill receptions, during major conferences and in the media. Then, the show has an interview with Indian activist Shabnam Hashmi discussing possibly the most important election in the history of the world's largest secular democracy. Johannes Brahms (whose birth anniversary is a few days away) and FFRF Co-President Dan Barker provide the musical interludes.
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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. |
| 0:25.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:32.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:41.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:47.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:58.7 | living for today. Hello, greetings. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm Amita Pahl, the communications director of the Freedom from Religion Foundation |
| 1:06.0 | and your guest host this week. |
| 1:08.7 | Co-presidents, Annie Laurie Galore and Dan Barker, |
| 1:12.1 | your usual co-hosts, are in Washington, D.C. this week |
| 1:15.8 | for some important meetings, and we'll talk about that in just a bit. |
| 1:21.0 | This is the May 2nd, 2004 episode. |
| 1:24.6 | Tori Neels with Audio for the Arts is our engineer in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist |
| 1:30.8 | studio in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in |
| 1:37.2 | Madison, Wisconsin, which produces Freethought Radio. FFRF works to keep state and church separate through legal action and to educate the |
| 1:48.1 | public about the views of non-theists, that is, atheists, agnostics, rationalists, |
| 1:56.4 | secular humanists, and other non-believers who are part of the fastest growing religious identification |
| 2:03.2 | in the country. The nuns spelled N-O-N-E-S, the 29% of the population who identify with no religion. |
| 2:13.6 | FFRF has more than 40,000 members and we hope you will also want to join us by |
| 2:19.6 | visiting ffrf.org. |
| 2:23.3 | My very important guest in the second half of the show will be Shabnam Hashmi, a long time |
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