Religion on Campus

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Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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What to do about religion at graduation ceremonies? FFRF State Policy Manager Ryan Dudley gives a roundup of state legislative actions this past spring. Then, Harvard student Ash Bu talks about her op-ed in The Crimson newspaper asking, "Where Are All the Atheists Hiding?"

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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 living for today.
0:58.9	Hello and welcome to Free Thought Radio.
1:00.9	I am Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:02.9	And I'm Dan Barker.
1:08.4	Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:14.1	This is the May 28th, 2026 episode of Free Thought Radio, recording in the Stephen Ull Friendly Atheist Studio in Free Thought Hall. Free Thought Hall is the national
1:20.7	headquarters of FFRF in Madison, Wisconsin. And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production
1:27.4	of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, emphasis on from,
1:31.4	because there is no true religious freedom without the freedom to dissent.
1:36.2	And our secular and godless constitution mandates freedom from religion.
1:41.3	The government is not supposed to have religion,
1:43.0	and those of us who are personally free from religion have equal rights with religious citizens, of course. So we would
1:50.1	love to have you join us if you're not a member at ffrf.org. In the second half of the show today,
1:57.0	we're going to talk with a Harvard student who wrote an opinion piece in the Harvard
2:01.9	student newspaper. It's called The Crimson, asking, where are all the atheists hiding?
2:10.7	Ash Boo is the 2026 recipient of FFRF's Percy B. Shelley Student Activist Award. And our kind donor who created
2:20.8	this award has noted that Shelley personified a young activist atheist because at an early age,
2:27.6	he published the necessity of atheism. And for his efforts, he was expelled from Oxford. So we're going to talk with
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