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Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The first Thursday of May, the National Day of Prayer, is actually the National Day of Reason. Today we announce FFRF's newest lawsuit challenging President Trump's Executive Order (signed on the National Day of Prayer in the Rose Garden) attempting to curtail the Johnson Amendment that limits politicking by churches. After hearing Dan Barker's song "Reason," we talk with a brave West Virginia mom who has joined FFRF's lawsuit challenging bible classes in her daughter's public school.

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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.
0:14.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:17.0	It's easy if you try
0:23.6	No hell below us
0:29.6	Above us only sky
0:36.6	Imagine all the people Above us only sky.
0:52.3	Welcome to Free Thought Radio.
0:59.1	I'm Annie Laurie Galar, and we have in a minute or two a big announcement to make in honor of what seculars now call the National Day of Reason.
1:04.6	I'm Dan Barker, and we'll hear that exciting news in just a minute.
1:09.3	This is the May 4th, 2017 edition of Freethought Radio.
1:15.0	Audrey Martinovich is our engineer, producing the show in the Stephen Yule, friendly atheist
1:21.1	studio in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:28.7	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and
1:33.5	FFRF works to keep religion out of government, and we also are a national membership organization
1:39.6	of over 28,000 free thinkers, atheists, agnosticists, secularists, secular humanists,
1:46.0	whatever you like to call yourselves, we all disbelieve in the same gods, and working very
1:50.0	diligently to defend the First Amendment. So we hope you will join us not someday, but today
1:55.4	at ffrof.org, and our announcement in a minute should give you very good impetus to support our work.
2:02.4	Today is the first Thursday of May.
2:04.8	You know what that means?
2:06.1	Unfortunately.
2:07.0	Today is the unconstitutional national day of prayer.
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