Prohibited Books
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week we talk about Christian nationalism, leaving the Mormon Church, and religion in the classroom. After listening to part of our TV interview with Rep. Jared Huffman about the theocratic Speaker of the House, we talk with historian Robin Vose, author of The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle Over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God.
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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 only sky |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:53.3 | Hello and welcome Living for today. |
| 1:01.7 | Hello and welcome to rational radio and blasphemous broadcasting. |
| 1:03.8 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:05.5 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:11.0 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:17.0 | And this is the February 15th, 2024 episode, or Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:20.1 | Tori Neals is our engineer. |
| 1:23.2 | She's with the recording studio Audio for the Arts. |
| 1:30.0 | And she's engineering the show in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio right here in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:36.0 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:41.0 | And Freethought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:45.0 | working very diligently to keep religion out of government and to educate the public. That's you about the views of non-believers, atheists, agnostic, |
| 1:52.0 | skeptics, secular humanists. We all disbelieve in the same gods regardless of what we call ourselves. |
| 1:57.8 | And we are now over 40,000 strong in terms of current members, and we would be glad |
| 2:03.6 | to send you complimentary information if you click the Ask for Info link at ffrof.org. |
| 2:10.6 | Censorship, book bannings, even book burnings seem to be on the rise as Christian nationalists attempt to force their narrow ideology on the rest of us. |
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