Goodbye Religion
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We announce the first atheist billboard in Africa! We report on a tsunami of Christian nationalist bills and executive orders at the federal and state levels, including Texas, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Iowa and Tennessee. In honor of Valentine's Day, we hear Dan Barker's secular love song "It's Only Natural." Then sociology Professor Ryan T. Cragun, author of Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization, shows us, with data, that religious people are not happier, healthier or more moral than nonreligious people.
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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. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today. |
| 0:59.6 | Hello and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:01.7 | Happy Valentine's Day. |
| 1:04.1 | It's supposed to be a day of love. |
| 1:10.0 | That's what President Trump called the January 6th insurrection, and we're not talking about that kind of day of love. |
| 1:12.2 | We love the First Amendment. We love democracy. We love those of you who make known your |
| 1:17.8 | dissent from religion, especially religion and government. And we love those of you who |
| 1:22.8 | listen to our broadcast and podcast. Thank you. I'm Dan Barker. Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. This is the February 13th, Valentine's Eve, 2025 episode of Free Thought Radio. Leo Costello is our producer, and Tori Neels with Audio for the Arts is our |
| 1:45.7 | engineer, recording in the Stephen O'Oll-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, the National |
| 1:52.1 | Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:56.7 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly broadcast and podcast of the Freedom from Religion Foundation |
| 2:02.2 | reporting on what we do over the past week and about timely developments with stature separation, |
| 2:09.9 | religion, and free thought. |
| 2:12.1 | And it's just one of many things that the Freedom from Religion Foundation does as the nation's |
| 2:17.0 | largest association |
| 2:18.3 | of free thinkers, atheists, agnostic, skeptics, whatever you call yourself, we all disbelieve |
| 2:24.0 | in the same gods. And we work diligently as a state church watchdog. And we would love to have |
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