Leaving The Witness
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
FFRF legal fellow Chris Line tells us about religious intrusion in Mississippi public schools. FFRF co-president Dan Barker makes the connection between his American Indian tribe (Delaware, Lenape) and the Christian cross on the county seal in LeHigh County, Pennsylvania. After hearing the Rupert Brooke poem set to music, "Heaven" (envisioning the afterlife from the point of view of a fish), we talk with Amber Scorah, author of the fascinating new book Leaving The Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.4 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.9 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine all the people Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:54.5 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and welcome to Freethought Radio. |
| 0:58.2 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:03.8 | This is the August 15, 2019 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:08.5 | Our engineer today, again, is Audrey Martinovich. |
| 1:12.3 | She's producing the show in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio, |
| 1:20.0 | which is in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:27.0 | And Freethought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, emphasis on from. We work to keep religion out of government |
| 1:30.1 | as our constitution in the United States requires. And we also represent the views of you, |
| 1:36.6 | those of the public who are personally free from religion. We are a growing minority, but |
| 1:43.0 | kind of under-acknowledged, atheists, agnostic, skeptics, |
| 1:47.0 | whatever you disbelieve in. We all, well, we all just believe in the same God. And we would love to |
| 1:52.7 | have your support. There's never been a tougher time to advocate for separation of church and state |
| 1:58.7 | and the use of reason in our social policy |
| 2:01.7 | in the United States, then today we need to band together and flex some collective muscle. |
| 2:06.8 | We would be glad to send you a complementary issue of our newspaper, Free Thought, today, |
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