Nonbelief in Nigeria
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
FFRF's lead attorney Rebecca Markert tells us about our recent victory by the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, who refused to rehear their decision declaring unconstitutional the practice of the Chino Hills (California) School Board opening sessions with prayer. After hearing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declare that Christians should fight marriage equality "until the Rapture," we listen to folksinger Malvina Reynolds perform "This World." Then we speak with Nigerian activist and scholar Leo Igwe, who tells us about next week's humanism convention in Abuja, "Leaving Religion: Risks, Challenges and Opportunities," and the dangers nonbelievers face in that country.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.4 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.7 | 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 |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:40.3 | Living for today |
| 0:50.3 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and welcome to our first show of 2019 and a happy new year to you, |
| 0:57.8 | but we think we're going to need to fasten our seatbelts for yet another bumpy year. |
| 1:03.3 | And I'm Dan Barker and I agree. This is the January 3rd, 2019 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:11.9 | Buzz Kemper is our engineer. |
| 1:14.1 | He's producing this show again in his own studio, |
| 1:18.1 | Audio for the Arts. |
| 1:20.0 | While our studio, the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:25.1 | a few blocks away from here, is being expanded and remodled. |
| 1:29.5 | Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:35.9 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:41.7 | which regular listeners will know has two purposes to educate the |
| 1:45.7 | public about non-theism. So FFF serves as North America's largest association of free thinkers, |
| 1:53.4 | atheists, agnostics, or whatever you like to call yourself. And we also work very diligently |
| 1:58.6 | to uphold the constitutional principle of separation between state and church as dictated by America's godless and secular constitution. |
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