Ideas & ideologies
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Colorado is getting tough on molesting clergy, Congress is passing the Equality Act to protect the LGBTQ community against Christian nationalists, and taxes are being appropriated to pay for a Kentucky church. FFRF intern and blogger Barbara Alvarez tells us about the bad South Carolina abortion law and about how members of Congress are being shunned by their evangelical families for voting to certify the President. Then we talk with Professor James Lull about his book Evolutionary Communication: An Introduction, linking the development of ideas and ideology.
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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. |
| 0:44.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 1:06.0 | Welcome to Feed That Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and we are glad to say goodbye to this beastly month of February, as Gilbert and Sullivan put it. And this week, of course, we saw that grim milestone of over 500,000 people in the United States dead from COVID-19. |
| 1:14.3 | So we're looking forward to a better March. |
| 1:17.7 | And I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:21.8 | This is the February 25th, 2021 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:31.4 | Annie, Lori, and I are hosting this show from our safer at home studio in Madison, Wisconsin, while once again Buzz Kemper is engineering from |
| 1:38.5 | Audio for the Arts, which is his recording studio right near the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| 1:45.0 | Buzz's studio is Audio for the Arts, and we're calling our home studio audio for the up parts. |
| 1:52.0 | Feed That Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:57.0 | which has two purposes to keep religion out of government, which is a constant struggle, |
| 2:02.4 | and to educate the public about the views of those of us who are non-believers, |
| 2:06.4 | and actually that's a constant struggle, too, although we are making some headway. |
| 2:10.6 | After having our advertisement censored by CBS for six years, |
| 2:15.4 | our advertisement with Ron Reagan, they did accept it this month. So, so there's some progress. |
| 2:20.3 | So speaking of advertising, FFRF has a billboard. We talked about it. We put it up for Darwin Day. |
| 2:29.3 | And it shows Mr. Darwin with a mask on saying in signs I trust in our messages masks on sleeves up |
| 2:36.7 | stay safe speaking of sleeves up Dan you got your vaccination this week I did |
| 2:44.4 | I have vaccination envy that's a new term now in the vocabulary vaccination envy |
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