Project Blitz
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
For our summer solstice show, FFRF attorney Sam Grover announces two state/church victories in Texas. FFRF's Director of Strategic Response Andrew Seidel reveals the connection between the White House bible study and Attorney General Jeff Sessions' claim that President Trump's inhumane immigration policy is based on the bible. Then we are joined by FFRF Director of Communications Amit Pal to talk with author and researcher Frederick Clarkson of Political Research Associates about his recent revelation of "Project Blitz," a nationwide scheme to introduce Christian nationalist legislation into state laws.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.0 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:18.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:23.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:42.3 | Living for today Welcome to Fee thought radio. |
| 1:11.8 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and happy summer solace. Welcome to Freeto Radio, radio for the rest of us. |
| 1:15.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Galar and happy summer solstice. |
| 1:17.9 | Today's the first day of summer. |
| 1:22.4 | The summer solstice actually happened at 5 a.m. this morning here in Wisconsin, |
| 1:31.5 | and here in Madison, it's a somewhat dreary, sunless summer solstice day, but we'll still be enjoying the longest day of the year. And I also always enjoy the fact that at least modern patriarchal religions have not yet co-opted this natural event. |
| 1:40.3 | So let's claim it for free thinkers. |
| 1:42.0 | Summer solstice is a free thought holiday. |
| 1:44.2 | I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist, |
| 1:47.6 | and this is the June 21st, 2018 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:53.1 | Buzz Kemper is engineering the show in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from |
| 2:03.6 | Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. The music between segments today is the Gershwin song, |
| 2:10.9 | Summertime. George and Ira Gershwin, the composer and the lyricist, who also wrote, |
| 2:17.3 | and ain't necessarily so, the things |
| 2:19.5 | that you're liable to read in the Bible, ain't necessarily so, they were both non-believers |
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