Playing God

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We report state/church victories and complaints in Texas, Alabama, Utah, California and Wisconsin, and we chastise Sen. Josh Hawley for his erroneous and tone-deaf Juneteenth comments about Christianity and slavery. Then we speak with Catholic journalist Mary Jo McConahay about her new book, Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and the Far Right.

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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.
0:19.9	It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people
0:41.3	Living for today
0:48.3	Ah
0:49.3	Ah
0:50.3	Am I
0:53.3	You Ah, ah. Amen. My
0:55.0	M.
0:57.0	M.
0:58.0	And And that's summertime, and it's happy summer.
1:24.7	This is Threat Thought Radio, and I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:28.1	And I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Free Thought Radio.
1:31.8	Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:36.9	And that was Louis Armstrong playing the George and Ira Gershwin song,
1:42.9	Summertime from Porgy and Best. Very appropriate this week at the
1:47.6	beginning of summer. The Gershwin brothers were non-religious and their work, their music,
1:53.5	always celebrated the natural world. This is the June 22nd, 2023 edition of Freethought Radio.
2:02.3	Grant Blaschka, with Audio for the Arts,
2:05.1	is engineering the show in the Stephen Old Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall,
2:09.5	the national offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation here in Madison, Wisconsin.
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