Leaving God
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
"Thoughts and prayers" are not enough. Violence — often prompted or exacerbated by religion — must be addressed with meaningful legislation. We encourage people this week to take action to protect state/church separation in Arizona, Delaware and Tennessee. After hearing Dan Barker's song "Get Off Your Knees (And Get To Work)," we talk with former Madison Avenue adman John Follis about his award-winning documentary film, "Leaving God: Why I left God and why so many others are too."
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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 Welcome to Freet That Radio. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and we are quickly marching out of March, and that's okay with me. |
| 1:05.0 | I only have two daffodils blooming at this point, Dan. |
| 1:08.0 | We have kind of a muddy garden, and I'm waiting for lots of tulips and daffodils to really spring |
| 1:13.9 | forth in April. |
| 1:14.9 | But you can see a lot of them are getting ready to start blooming. |
| 1:18.2 | And I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:21.7 | This is the March 25th, 2021 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:33.2 | Buzz Kemper again is engineering from Audio for the Arts, his recording studio near the Wisconsin State Capitol, while Annie Laurie and I are hosting from our home studio a couple |
| 1:39.7 | miles away in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:42.3 | Since the pandemic forced us out of our main recording studio in FFRF's headquarters building last March, a year ago, we've been hosting from home for a whole year now. |
| 1:56.0 | And boy, this past year has just zoomed by. Zoomed by. I get it. We're all having Zoom fatigue. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and we work to keep religion out of government and to represent the views of those of you who are personally free from religion so that reason and our secular constitution will prevail. |
| 2:20.1 | We have made it past 35,000 members this spring. |
| 2:23.0 | We would love to have you join us if you're not already a member. |
| 2:25.9 | If you are, thank you. |
| 2:27.3 | And we'd be glad to send you a complimentary issue of our newspaper, Free Thought Today, |
| 2:31.0 | chock full of lots of much more detail than we can go to on the show. |
| 2:36.0 | So just go to ffrof.org and click the Ask for Info link or click the donate link and become a dues-paying member and we will speak with a more powerful voice because of it. |
| 2:46.0 | So Dan, do you have a joke? |
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