Religion and Trumpian Populism
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We first do a round-up of the news nationally and globally, including the death of Pope Francis and the Trump administration's setting up of a dubious religion-based task force. Then, guest host FFRF Communications Director Amitabh Pal interviews University of Louisville Professor David T. Buckley on his recent book, Blessing America First: Religion, Populism and Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration. Barbra Streisand's songs provide the soundtrack to the show.
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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 |
| 0:41.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:47.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:58.7 | living for today. Hello, I'm Amit Pahl, |
| 1:01.2 | communications director of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:05.5 | The regular hosts of Freethought Radio, |
| 1:08.0 | FFRFRF co-presidents Annie Laurie Galore and Dan Barkle are out of town |
| 1:12.5 | and that's why they asked me to substitute today. |
| 1:15.1 | This is the April 24th, 2025 episode. |
| 1:20.9 | Leo Costello is our producer and Tori Neels with Audio for the Arts is our engineer. |
| 1:27.1 | We are recording in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:32.1 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:39.3 | Freethought Radio is produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:43.3 | FFRF has two purposes to keep state and |
| 1:46.3 | church separate and to educate the public about the views of atheists, agnostics, secular |
| 1:54.0 | humanists and other non-believers. With more than 42,000 members, FFRF is the largest association of free thinkers in North America. |
| 2:04.2 | And we hope you will want to join us in our work to keep religion out of government. |
| 2:09.8 | You can become a member at ffrf.org. |
| 2:15.1 | Later in today's show, I will be joined by Professor David Buckley, author of the book Blessing America First, religion, populism and foreign policy in the Trump administration. |
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