"So Help Me FFRF"
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After talking about warning labels on bibles and reporting on state/church news, we hear Brandi Carlile's new song "Church and State." FFRF Senior Litigation Counsel Sam Grover joins us to talk about our newest lawsuit with South Carolina plaintiff Jim Reel, who was denied becoming a poll worker because he could not swear "so help me God."
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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 |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today. |
| 0:58.7 | Welcome to Pete That Radio. |
| 1:00.1 | Happy November. |
| 1:02.1 | I'm Annie Laurie Galar. |
| 1:03.8 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:06.1 | This is radio for the rest of us. |
| 1:12.2 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:17.9 | This is the November 6th, 2025 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:24.9 | We're recording in the Stephen Ull-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:30.4 | Free Thought Hall is the national headquarters of FFRF in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:38.0 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from, Religious Foundation, emphasis on from. |
| 1:47.8 | We work to keep religion out of government as our secular constitution dictates, and we also represent those of us who are personally free from religion, and that is about 42,000 North Americans who belong to the Freedom |
| 1:55.2 | from Religion Foundation. And if you are a member, thank you. And if not, please join us. Up to three and ten |
| 2:03.3 | Americans, adult Americans today have no religious affiliation. If you're looking for a home, |
| 2:10.1 | come check us out at ffrf.org. And this is our country, too, regardless of what the Christian |
| 2:17.0 | nationalists pretend. |
| 2:19.0 | Our Constitution says there shall be no religious test for public office. |
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