Humanists in the Hood
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This Halloween week, it is a scary time for state/church separation, women's rights, and public health. FFRF Legal Fellow Joseph McDonald explains how we got a Missouri public high-school coach to stop leading students in prayer. Then author, educator and activist Sikivu Hutchinson tells us about the challenges facing nontheistic African-American women, explained in her book Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical.
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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 |
| 0:39.3 | No hell below us above us above us only sky |
| 0:43.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:49.3 | living for today Yeah |
| 0:56.0 | Ah |
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| 0:59.0 | . Welcome to Free Thought Radio. Halloween, of course, is coming up, but there's a whole lot of scary going on. |
| 1:21.6 | So first things first, if you're a U.S. citizen hearing this before election day, get out and vote. |
| 1:29.4 | If you need voter information, go to vote.org. Vote like your rights depend on it because they do. |
| 1:38.0 | And I'm Dan Barker with Annie Laurie Gaylor. This is the October 29th, 2020 edition of Free Thought Radio. During the pandemic, |
| 1:48.3 | Annie Laurie and I have been hosting this show from our Safe at Home studio in Madison, Wisconsin, |
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| 2:33.8 | for separation of religion and government and to promote the use of reason in our social policy and laws. |
| 2:42.0 | So this is a scary time. Halloween is coming up and there's a lot of other scary things to think of. |
| 2:47.0 | I think one of the scariest things we should do, not that people should go trick-or-treating |
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