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Freethought Radio

Holy Hierarchy

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6578 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We give a Bronx cheer to Trump's religious remarks at the State of the Union and the National Prayer Breakfast, but we give a real cheer to Black History Month by celebrating Butterfly McQueen and Frederick Douglass. After hearing a Valentine's Day love song, "The Man I Love" (written by the nonbelieving Gershwin brothers, and sung by Dan's mother when she was a teenager), we talk with author and filmmaker Jeremiah Camara about his new documentary movie, Holy Hierarchy: The Religious Roots of Racism in America.

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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 Imagine all the people Welcome to free thought Welcome to Free Thought Radio.

0:52.4

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and happy Valentine's Day.

0:56.6

It is time to love thy First Amendment, and also to celebrate Black History Month.

1:03.5

And I'm Dan Barker.

1:04.8

This is the February 14th, 2019 edition of Free Thought Radio.

1:10.8

Buzz Kemper is our engineer and the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall,

1:16.9

the national offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.

1:22.7

Free Thought Radio is the production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation coming out every week,

1:37.5

and FFRF, as regular listeners may know, works to keep religion out of government as is required under the United States' secular and godless constitution.

1:46.7

And we're also an umbrella organization for those of us who are free from religion personally, whether you are a freethinker, an atheist,

1:52.5

an agnostic, or rationalist, a skeptic, or even some of you deists, we're a welcoming home for you.

1:57.8

But if you're not a non-believer, we also appreciate that you are learning more about us by listening to Free Thought Radio.

1:59.8

Today, in the second half of the show, we're going to talk with the filmmaker, author, and atheist, Jeremiah Camara, about his powerful new film.

2:10.6

It's called Holy Hierarchy, the religious roots of racism in America.

2:16.6

We talked with Jeremiah, I think about four years ago, about his previous film, Contradiction, A Question of Faith.

2:24.6

And before we talk with Jeremiah Kamara, we have some news, of course,

2:28.0

and are going to parse two of President Donald Trump's national speeches last week,

2:33.9

as they touch on stature separation

2:36.1

and the injection of religion, unfortunately,

2:39.6

into U.S. social policy.

2:41.0

So first, let's hear a bit of the February 6th State of the Union address.

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