Secular Compassion

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Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Guest: Phil Zuckerman. After reporting on victories and challenges regarding governmental prayer, we parse the Supreme Court oral arguments in the case involving a praying high-school football coach. Then we hear sociologist and author Phil Zuckerman, a pioneer in secular studies, making the case for why secular Americans, as a group, are more moral than religious Americans.

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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.
0:13.5	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:20.0	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.
0:53.0	Hello, welcome to Free Thought Radio.
1:00.0	I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and hello, friend, neighbor, and freethinker. This is radio for the rest of us.
1:09.1	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. This is the April 28th, 2022 episode of Free Thought Radio.
1:14.0	Grant Blaschka is our engineer in the Stephen Yule, or I should say it correctly, the Stephen Ull friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, the national offices of the
1:20.2	Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production
1:25.6	of the Freedom from religion foundation, emphasis
1:28.8	on from, as our secular constitution in the United States dictates, and our membership,
1:36.7	our national membership organization is also, for the most part, personally free from religion.
1:42.4	And we work very diligently to keep religion out of government
1:46.0	and educate the public about non-theism. And we would love to have you join us at ffref.org
1:51.0	or ask for a sample of our lively newspaper, Free Thought, today, and we'll send you a brochure either by email or by mail about our 45 years of major achievements to keep religion out of government.
2:06.0	And we do hope someday you will join us. We hope today you will join us. On today's show in the
2:12.7	second half, we're going to hear from the eminent sociologist and prolific author Phil Zuckerman.
2:18.8	He's the pioneer of secular studies.
2:22.3	He teaches at Pitzer College in California.
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