Star-Spangled Jesus

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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We are not retreating from our lawsuit challenging the Ten Commandments in Texas public schools, in spite of the Texas attorney general's warning that he won't back down from posting them. After covering state/church news in Texas, Arkansas, Minnesota and Colorado, we hear Rachel Maddow's warning about authoritarianism. Then, we speak with April Ajoy, author of the book Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts 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
0:56.0	living for today Living for the day Yeah I
0:57.0	Well, I want back down.
1:11.6	You won't back down. That's Tom Petty, a free thinker, singing his anthem. I won't back down. I'm Annie
1:34.5	Laurie Galar. And the Attorney General of Texas says he will not back down from displaying the Ten
1:41.1	commandments in public school classrooms. Well, neither will we back down from suing to stop him.
1:47.9	More about that later.
1:49.1	And I'm Dan Barker.
1:50.6	Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:56.1	This is the August 28th, 2025 episode of Freethought Radio.
2:00.7	We're recording in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist
2:03.6	studio in Freethought Hall, our national headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin.
2:09.0	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, working
2:15.3	to keep religion out of government as our Constitution
2:19.5	dictates and working on behalf of people who are personally free from religion
2:24.8	and we number over 42,000 current members of FFRF and invite you to join us at
2:30.4	fFRF.org. In the second half of today's show, we're going to talk with April a joy.
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