Indian Jeopardy

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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We protest bibles and prayers in public schools and "In God We Trust" on public buildings. Freethought Radio co-host Annie Laurie Gaylor wraps up her series on "The Cult of Fetus Worship." Then we commemorate the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Indian rationalist Narendra Dabholkar by speaking with his brave successor Avinash Patil, president of the Maharashtra Association for the Eradication of Superstition.

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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.
0:14.0	Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky.
0:48.3	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:52.3	Hello, welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Galore and out with the dog days of August, happy September.
0:58.9	And I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Free Thought Radio.
1:02.9	Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:08.7	And this is the August 31st, 2023 episode of Free Thought Radio.
1:14.3	Grant Blaschka, again, he's with the recording studio, Audio for the Arts, is our engineer
1:21.3	right here in the Stephen Old Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall,
1:26.3	the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:31.6	Free Thought Radio is brought to you by the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which is a organization of about 40,000 non-believers, freethinkers, athenostics, working to keep religion out of government
1:46.2	as the U.S. Constitution requires. And that's kind of a big battle these days. So we'd love to have
1:52.2	you join us if you're not part of us at ffrof.org. And you can go to the homepage at ffruf.org and click the link, the Ask for Info link,
2:04.4	and we'll send you information in it.
2:05.9	It will include a sample, a hard copy, or digital of our newspaper, Free Thought Today,
2:12.5	which is a great publication.
2:14.8	And we want to say that it is celebrating its 40th anniversary tomorrow, September 1st.
2:21.8	The debut introductory issue was put out on September 1st, 1983. Not 19, 1983. Although there were a lot
2:31.6	of Freethought publications. It was a time when Freethought was flowering in the 19th century. So there would have been more competition for us, but we're the only free thought newspaper in North America. In some parts of the world, it can be dangerous to be a free thinker. In the second half of today's show, we're going to talk with Avinash Patil of India.
2:53.0	He's the successor of the rationalist leader, Narendra Da Bolkar,
2:59.0	who was assassinated 10 years ago this month for his rationalist views.
3:05.8	Now I'll be continuing that ongoing series of the cult of fetus worship.
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