Godless Citizens
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
FFRF urges the IRS to investigate President Trump's "spiritual adviser" Paula White over illegal church politicking. Annie Laurie explains how Judge Kavanaugh's alleged attempted rape mirrors biblical teachings. FFRF urges investigation into Catholic Church sexual crimes against children. After talking with FFRF attorney Ryan Jayne about a New Jersey county petitioning the Supreme Court to overturn our federal victory prohibiting tax dollars from repairing churches, we interview Cornell scholar R. Laurence Moore about the new book he co-authored with Isaac Kramnick called Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.4 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:02.7 | Hello, faithless, faithful listeners, and this is radio for the rest of us devoted to the undevoted, the growing population of nuns. That's N-O-N-E-S, who choose none of the above when it comes to deities and who are strong proponents of secularism, |
| 1:11.6 | keeping religion out of government and out of our personal liberties. |
| 1:15.6 | If you're tuning in for the first time, welcome whatever your views. |
| 1:18.6 | We're glad you're curious and open-minded enough to hear about the views of those of us who dissent from religion. |
| 1:25.6 | Including me, I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:28.5 | This is the September 20th, 2018 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:33.3 | Our engineer and producer today is Buzz Kemper, doing this show in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist |
| 1:39.5 | studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:42.0 | Free Thought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:47.8 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:51.2 | which has two purposes to educate the public about non-belief, about non-theism. |
| 1:57.7 | And so we serve as the nation's largest association of free thinkers. |
| 2:01.4 | That means someone who forms their opinion about religion based on reason. |
| 2:05.1 | We have 32,000 plus members, and if you are a member, thank you, and if you're not, we'd love to |
| 2:09.6 | have you join us at ffref.org. |
| 2:11.6 | Our second purpose is the all-important one of keeping religion out of government, of buttressing |
| 2:17.3 | that sacred wall of |
| 2:19.6 | separation between church and state. |
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