Schools Under Attack

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We describe our legal efforts to gain information about the attempt by the Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Education to put the bible into every classroom, and similar attempts in Tennessee to inject religion into government. We hear Rupert Brooke's poem "Heaven" (from the point of view of a fish) set to music by Dan Barker. Then we talk with Cara Fitzpatrick, author of the new book, The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:14.9	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:18.9	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 imagine all the people living for today.
1:00.2	Hello and welcome to Freethought Radio and happy August.
1:02.0	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:03.7	And I'm Dan Barker.
1:08.7	Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:14.8	And this is the August 1st, 2024 episode of Freethought Radio.
1:21.7	Leo Costello is our producer, and Tori Neels with Audio for the Arts is our engineer.
1:27.1	And we're recording Freethought Radio in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall,
1:30.8	the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:32.7	in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:34.7	And regular listeners know,
1:39.5	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which works to keep the government free from religion as our secular constitution requires and
1:45.7	also serves as a national membership group for those of us who are personally free from
1:51.9	religion. We have over 40,000 members if you are one. Thank you. And if not, we'd love to send
1:58.8	you complimentary information about FFRF.
2:01.6	Just go to our website link and click the Ask for Info link.
2:06.6	And you'll learn more about our work to keep religion out of government.
2:11.6	Public education in the United States is under attack.
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