No Reason to Fear

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It is the merry month of May and the scary month of May. Secular groups make history by meeting with the White House Office of Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships, but the Supreme Court decision to hear an abortion ban case is very bad news. After listening to Kristin Lems' song Days of the Theocracy, we talk with sociologist Phil Zuckerman, a professor at Pitzer College, about his Secular Studies program and his LA Times article claiming: "There is no reason to fear a secular nation."

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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
0:39.3	Above us only sky
0:41.3	Imagine all the people
0:46.3	living for today.
0:58.6	Welcome to Freight That Radio.
1:05.0	I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and it's the Merry Month of May and the Scary Month of May.
1:06.4	More about that in a minute.
1:08.8	And I'm Dan Barker, co-host.
1:21.3	As Annie Laurie said, this is the month of May. This is Freethout Radio for May 20th, 2021. And we are no longer hosting from our home studio.
1:28.3	Little by little, we're getting back into our main building here in Madison, Wisconsin, the headquarters of the Freethought Hall. And our studio, the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist studio, is still being updated.
1:32.3	So we are in the library here, the Joel B. Landon and Wanda W. Bierce Library here at Freethought Hall.
1:40.3	And you might hear some street noise from moment to moment here, but that just makes our show very real.
1:47.1	And our engineer today is Grant Blashka.
1:51.8	He's producing the show, engineering from the nearby recording studio here in Madison, Wisconsin, called Audio for the Arts.
2:00.0	Freethart Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
2:05.1	and that From is on purpose.
2:06.7	We work to keep religion out of government as our secular constitution in the United States requires,
2:12.3	and we also represent those of you who are personally free from religion,
2:16.8	and we have more than 35,000 members.
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