Rationalist International
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We challenge a Tennessee sheriff deputy who preaches that America should follow the biblical law that homosexuals should be "put to death," and a Tennessee District Attorney who uses his religious beliefs to deny equal treatment to the LGBTQ community. Then we speak with the founder and president of Rationalist International, Sanal Edamaruku, who had to flee India to Finland after being accused by the Catholic Church of blasphemy because he exposed a purported miracle of a weeping Jesus statue in Mumbai as nothing more than a leaking water pipe. Sanal tells us about the Rationalist conference in Cambridge, UK, July 27-28.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
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| 0:13.4 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.9 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.4 | Welcome to Freethought Radio. |
| 0:54.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore. And I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Freethought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:58.2 | And I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:05.9 | This is the June 13th, 2019 show of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:23.8 | Our engineer, as almost usual, is Buzz Kemper, doing a great job engineering and producing this show in the Stephen Yule, friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. And Free Thought Radio's, the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:29.7 | FFRF.RF. |
| 1:31.6 | And we are in our 41st year as a national group with over 31,000 members in the United States |
| 1:38.2 | and others in the world. |
| 1:40.2 | And we would love to have you join us in our work so that reason and our secular |
| 1:45.1 | constitution will prevail. Here in the United States, which has such broad influence globally, |
| 1:50.8 | and we are fighting the battle of our lives against the rise of religious Christian nationalism |
| 1:58.3 | in the United States, fights against trying to curtail abortion rights, |
| 2:04.1 | to intrude religion into the most personal of all our decisions, as well as into our government |
| 2:09.2 | and social policy. And we work very hard litigating and trying to end violations without having |
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