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Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
God, government, and the coronavirus. Public officials are favoring religion during the COVID-19 crisis. Despite prayer, churches were damaged by Easter storms. After hearing "America's Best Christian" Betty Bowers urge churchgoers to "stay the hell at home," we talk with professor Ryan Burge about his research showing that atheists and agnostics are the most politically active "religious group" in the United States.
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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 imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and this is an appropriate day for our radio show and broadcast |
| 1:04.0 | because it's National Ask an Atheist Day. |
| 1:08.0 | And the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which produces this weekly show, is a membership group made up of atheists and agnostics. |
| 1:15.6 | And we're sorry, we can't take your calls, but maybe this show will answer some of your questions. |
| 1:20.6 | I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. And of course, you could ask us a question at |
| 1:25.6 | free thought radio at ffrf.org. |
| 1:29.3 | If you listen to the show, we'll know you're listening and we can perhaps on the next show respond to your question. |
| 1:35.3 | This is the April 16th, 2020 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:39.3 | Buzz Kemper again is doing this show in his own studio, downtown for the arts while annie laurie and i are |
| 1:45.8 | speaking from our home in madison wisconsin a few miles from where buzz is uh in a few miles from |
| 1:52.6 | the national office of the freedom from religion foundation in madison wisconsin hi buzz hello |
| 1:58.7 | dan and annie lorry thanks again my pleasure as i said free Wisconsin. Hi, Buzz. Hello, Dan and Annie Laurie. Thanks again. |
| 2:01.6 | My pleasure. |
| 2:02.6 | As I said, Free Thought Radio is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and we're a membership group. And if you're a member, thank you. And if not, we'd love to have you join us today at ffrof.org. We are still sending out intro packets of our newspaper Free Thought |
| 2:19.3 | Today, which is a very good introduction to all the other things the Freedom from |
| 2:23.6 | Religion Foundation does as a national state church watchdog, working to educate |
| 2:28.2 | the public about the views of those of us who are personally free from religion. |
| 2:33.0 | So you can go to our website, ffraff.org slash donate to join, |
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