More Atheists Than We Thought!
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
What's wrong with Senator Marco Rubio and Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin promoting bible reading? We report a victory removing scripture from a New Mexico public school and talk with FFRF attorney Maddy Ziegler about the 9th-Circuit decision telling a Bremerton, Wa. high-school football coach he cannot pray during games. After talking about romantic nonreligious weddings, we interview University of Kentucky assistant professor Will Gervais about his studies showing that because of the public distrust of nonbelievers, the number of atheists in the United States is highly under-reported.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.3 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.6 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.4 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:51.3 | Welcome to Radio for the rest of us. I'm Annie Laurie Galore. |
| 0:55.3 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 0:58.4 | This is the August 24, 2017 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:03.0 | Buzz Kemper is our engineer in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:09.0 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion |
| 1:12.0 | Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom |
| 1:17.7 | from Religion Foundation. FFRF is about to enter its 40th year of operation as a state church |
| 1:24.6 | watchdog whose members are personally free from religion, mostly atheists and agnostics, |
| 1:29.7 | skeptics, whatever you like to call yourselves, we all disbelieve in the same gods. |
| 1:34.2 | And don't miss our upcoming 40th annual convention here in Madison, Wisconsin, the weekend of September 15th and 17th. |
| 1:41.4 | Go to ffrof.org events for more information. |
| 1:44.7 | Today we're going to talk about the public perception of atheists. During the second half of the show, |
| 1:50.1 | we will interview Will Gervais, the principal author of a number of studies showing that while |
| 1:56.1 | atheists are distrusted generally, there actually may be a lot more atheist than has been reported. |
| 2:03.4 | And so unfairly distrusted. We will also talk briefly in this segment with staff attorney |
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