God is still not great
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We discuss some troubling state/church news (and a few victories) in New Jersey, California, Texas, Indiana, Arkansas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Oklahoma. FFRF attorney Liz Cavell describes the Groff v. DeJoy case before the Supreme Court that will likely extend religious privilege in the workplace. Then we hear a voice from the past, the never-before-played "God is not Great" speech by Christopher Hitchens at FFRF's 2007 convention.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.3 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.7 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.9 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine all the people Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:54.3 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. And I'm Dan Barker. Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:01.1 | This is the April 13th episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:05.4 | Grant Blaschka is our engineer in the Stephen Old Friendly Atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:11.8 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:16.6 | And Freethought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:22.6 | and we have two purposes to keep religion out of government |
| 1:27.1 | and to educate the public about the views of those |
| 1:30.2 | of us who are personally free from religion, which is the fastest growing and largest segment |
| 1:35.8 | of the U.S. population today based on religious identification. And we're called the nuns. And about a |
| 1:43.2 | third of nuns are atheists and agnostics, |
| 1:45.6 | and FFRF is mostly comprised of non-believers, atheists, and agnostics, over 40,000. And if you're |
| 1:53.2 | a member, thank you. And if not, we hope you'll join us not someday, but today at FFRF.org. And so, Dan, you were absent for a while. You just came back from Europe. |
| 2:04.7 | Oh, I had a fun. I had a fun trip. I gave a talk and I played a concert, a free thought concert, |
| 2:10.0 | in Warsaw for the Atheist Days conference, which was very well attended. I visited with some secular humanists in Stockholm, |
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