Godless Citizens
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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'Tis the season to fight state/church violations. We talk about FFRF's full-page "Theocracy" ad in the New York Times, and a number of FFRF's solstice displays around the country to counter religious displays. FFRF attorney Chris Line tells us about Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt's outrageous attack on the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Then we hear from professor R. Laurence Moore, co-author (with Isaac Kramnick) of 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-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
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| 0:59.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is our first program in the month of December 2019. |
| 1:03.8 | So it's the season, tis the season for state church violations. |
| 1:07.9 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:12.5 | And tis the season to fight state church violations. And we'll be talking about that during today's show. This is the December 5th, 2019 edition of Free Thought Radio. Our engineer today |
| 1:20.7 | producing this show in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist studio is Noah Gil Phelan. The studio is in Freethought Hall, the national offices of the Freedom |
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