Our Non-Christian Nation
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Guest: Jay Wexler. FFRF tells San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone that it was a "grave evil" to deny Nancy Pelosi communion. There is a new freethinking miniseries on Hulu. FFRF complains about pious pandering politicians. After hearing George Hrab's song about "thoughts and prayers" titled "The Least That You Can Do," we listen to Boston Law Professor Jay Wexler talk about his book Our Non-Christian Nation: How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.3 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.7 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.5 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:51.3 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:55.7 | This is radio for the rest of us, those who are not religious, or those who are interested in the views of those of us who are not religious, |
| 1:04.8 | and in particular also keeping government secular. |
| 1:08.7 | And I'm Dan Barker, your co-host. |
| 1:12.1 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:16.7 | This is the June 9th, 2022 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:20.9 | Grant Blashka with Audio for the Arts is our engineer in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:29.0 | That's the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:34.3 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:39.1 | which works to keep religion out of government as our Constitution requires and to educate the public, that's you, |
| 1:46.7 | about the views of non-theists. And we're a membership association of over 36, actually right now, |
| 1:53.0 | over 37,000 dues paying members, mainly atheist, agnostic, skeptics, secularists. |
| 1:59.8 | And members of the Freedom from Religion Foundation know that the United States is not a Christian nation and never has been. |
| 2:08.6 | You also know that the number and the percentage of non-Christians and non-religious Americans has been growing rapidly. |
| 2:15.9 | Today, in the second half of the show, |
| 2:21.5 | we will hear Boston University Law Professor Jay Wexler talk about his latest book, |
| 2:24.5 | Our Non-Christian Nation, |
| 2:26.8 | how atheists, Satanists, pagans, and others |
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