Power Worshippers
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
There is more to beware of this week than the Ides of March. Can the Corona Virus be cured by prayer? FFRF's Andrew Seidel tells us about how Vice President Pence is (unsuccessfully) trying just that. After reporting state/church news and listening to the optimistic Yip Harburg/Earl Robinson song "One Sweet Morning," we talk with journalist and author Katherine Stewart about her cautionary new book, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.2 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.6 | 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 living for today. |
| 0:50.3 | Welcome to Freet Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and the aides of March are coming up, and there is more to beware of than just that. |
| 0:58.8 | And we'll talk about that later on the show today. |
| 1:01.5 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. |
| 1:06.0 | Today is the March 12th, 2020 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:10.3 | We're recording on Thursday. |
| 1:11.6 | If we'd record the show tomorrow... |
| 1:13.5 | It would have been a lucky day. |
| 1:14.8 | It would have been Friday the 13th, a lucky day. |
| 1:17.7 | I mean, we free thinkers are not superstitious. |
| 1:21.3 | But I think today's a lucky day, too. |
| 1:22.9 | March the 12th, 2020, the show is produced in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio and Freethought Hall. |
| 1:30.1 | Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:37.6 | Our engineer is the voice deity, Buzz Kemper. He's with audio for the arts. |
| 1:44.4 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:50.2 | which is the nation's largest association of freethinkers, atheists and agnostic, over 31,000, |
| 1:56.5 | almost 32. So we thank you if you are a member, and if not, help swell our ranks. |
| 2:02.4 | It's so important to speak with a more powerful voice on behalf of reason and separation of |
| 2:08.9 | church and state. |
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