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Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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FFRF announces another Ten Commandments lawsuit, this one in Texas. After covering state/church news at the federal, state and local levels, we talk with Joe Gerstein, M.D., founder of SMART Recovery, a secular program for dealing with alcoholism and other addictions that is based on science and evidence, not faith.

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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
0:41.3	Above us only sky
0:47.3	Imagine all the people
0:59.0	living for today We fought a revolution We took a stand to declare our independence from kings
1:05.0	We knew that we the people could rule this land
1:09.0	And show the world how true freedom rames.
1:13.6	We wrote a constitution the very first to separate the church from the state.
1:20.6	No one can tell the people what to believe, and that's what makes this nation so great. No one can tell the people what to believe, and that's what makes this nation so great.
1:28.3	No one can tell the people what to believe, and that's what makes this nation so great.
1:34.1	Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Galore. This is Free Thought Radio, and that's my co-host, Dan Barker,
1:40.3	singing his song, We the People. This July 4th weekend, We the People, are celebrating
1:46.6	America's independence from kings, and we're also celebrating here at FFRF, our government's official
1:53.1	independence from religion, at least that's on paper. And I'm Dan Barker. Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of FFRF, as she said,
2:04.4	the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
2:07.3	And this is the July 3rd, 2025 episode.
2:11.6	We're recording in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall,
2:15.6	which is the National Office of the Freedom
2:18.4	from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
2:21.9	And regular listeners know that the Freedom from Religion Foundation, known as FFRF, is the nation's
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