How to talk to Christians
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
After reporting on efforts to keep state and church separate in Tennessee, Indiana, Oklahoma, and Florida, we get acquainted with FFRF's new multimedia producer Leo Costello. Then, South Carolina humanist and atheist debater Herb Silverman, founder and president emeritus of the Secular Coalition for America, tells us "How to talk to Christians."
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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 imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:58.7 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:00.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:01.9 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:07.3 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:15.6 | This is the August 15th, 2024 episode of Free Thought Radio. Our producer is Leo Costello, |
| 1:21.7 | and our engineer is Tori Neels with Audio for the Arts. We're recording Free Thought Radio in the Stephen Ull friendly atheist Studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:33.7 | Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:40.9 | And this program, Free Thought Radio, is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:42.3 | emphasis on from. |
| 1:46.2 | And you can tell from our name that we have two purposes. We work to keep religion out of government as our secular constitution dictates. |
| 1:51.2 | And we are also a membership group for those of us who are personally free from religion. |
| 1:55.6 | And we have over 40,000 members. |
| 1:58.1 | We wish we were 50,000. |
| 1:59.9 | If you are a member, thank you. And if not, we'd love to send you |
| 2:03.4 | complimentary information, no obligation. We don't sell our mailing list to anybody. We keep it all |
| 2:08.6 | in confidence. You can check us out at ffruf.org or click the ask for info link. And we will send you |
| 2:15.0 | a copy of our newspaper, Freethaw today. It comes out 10 times a year and reports on state church news and what FFFRF is doing with your dues. |
| 2:24.8 | And we also have a brochure about our 47 years of activism, so go to FFRF.org for that information. |
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