Religious Trauma
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We celebrate Earth Day and 15 years of broadcasting Freethought Radio by announcing some good news on the state/church front. After hearing Dan Barker's song "None of the Above," we talk with psychologist and educator Dr. Marlene Winell, author of Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion, who tells us how to deal with religious trauma.
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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. Bellow us Above us |
| 0:39.3 | Only sky |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:57.0 | Happy Earth Day. I'm Annie Laurie Galore. |
| 1:00.8 | Let's honor Mother Earth, not that God of consumption. |
| 1:05.8 | And I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:10.1 | This is the April 22nd, Earth Day, April 22nd, |
| 1:14.5 | 2021 edition of Free Thought Radio. Annie, Lori, and I are still hosting this show from our home studio |
| 1:21.8 | in Madison, Wisconsin. Maybe someday we'll be able to get back to our real studio. Well, soon, Dan. |
| 1:26.6 | Soon, and maybe a few weeks. |
| 1:28.8 | And while we're doing it remotely, Buzz Kamper is engineering in his own studio, Audio for the Arts, |
| 1:36.4 | which is down near the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| 1:39.8 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:44.1 | As regular listeners will know, we are over 35,000 current members, atheists, agnostic, skeptics, whatever you like to call yourself. We all disbelieve in the same gods. And we are a very diligent state church watchdog with a team of 10 attorneys to legal assistance, litigating, |
| 2:04.5 | and also ending violations through education and complaint letters all around the country. |
| 2:10.1 | A very vital issue right now, especially with the courts being packed by Christian nationalists by the former president, |
| 2:19.1 | and we hope you will take alarm and join us today at ffrf.org. |
| 2:24.8 | Did you know that today's show completes 15 years of broadcasting, Free Thought Radio? |
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