Strongly Stated
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The new head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, has insulted "practical atheists," but it is really his own church that needs to apologize for bad behavior. After hearing Dan Barker's song "The Battle of Church and State," we speak with FFRF's Senior Policy Counsel Ryan Jayne and Regional Governmental Affairs Manager Mickey Dollens about the many "good, bad & ugly" state/church bills at the state level.
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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 Welcome to Pete That Radio. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Galar, and this is radio for the rest of us. |
| 1:01.7 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:03.9 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:08.7 | This is the May 15th, 2025 episode recording in the Stephen O'Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:17.9 | which is our national headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:21.1 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:26.5 | which is a tax-exempt nonprofit group |
| 1:29.9 | working to educate the public, and that is you, about the views of non-theists and non-theism, |
| 1:37.3 | and also serving as the nation's largest association for like-minded non-believers, |
| 1:42.6 | whether you call yourself an atheist, agnostic |
| 1:45.1 | humanist, or just prefer not religious. We have 42,000-plus members. We would love to have you |
| 1:52.6 | join us today in our battle for state and church separation. And we're going to talk about that |
| 1:58.4 | battle. In the second half of today's show, we're going to talk with FFRF's senior policy council, Ryan Jane, and with regional governmental affairs manager Mickey Dallens, about religion and government at the state level. |
| 2:15.0 | The FFF Action Fund produces a periodic report called Strongly Stated, |
| 2:20.4 | and they're going to go over some of the many good and bad pieces of legislation |
| 2:26.4 | that have passed or been killed just in this very big flurry of spring legislation. |
| 2:32.6 | The music that you're going to hear today during the breaks comes from the musician, record producer |
| 2:38.0 | Brian Eno. He turns 77 today. Eno pioneered the ambient genre, producing slow atmospheric music. |
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