Texas Courage
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
After offering a fresh perspective on President Trump masquerading as Jesus and other news of the week, we interview Johnnie Cotton, a Texas band director who resigned rather than put up a Ten Commandments poster in his classroom.
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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. |
| 0:44.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:58.6 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:00.3 | I'm co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which is producing this podcast and broadcast. |
| 1:07.8 | My co-host, Dan Barker, isn't here today. Instead, he's in Ontario, Canada, to participate in a debate about the purpose of life with a former Muslim-turned Christian apologist, and next week he will tell us how that debate went. |
| 1:25.3 | This is the April 16th, 2020. I'm Cheryl Hill, Wynn, by the way. This is the April 16th, 2020, I'm Sheryl Hill, Wynn, by the way. |
| 1:29.4 | This is the April 16th, 2026 episode being recorded in the Stephen Ool, friendly atheist studio |
| 1:36.4 | in Freethought Hall, which is FFRF's office in Madison, Wisconsin. And today is National |
| 1:43.6 | Ask an Atheist Day. Our producer is looking to answer |
| 1:47.7 | listener questions on a future show, whether this radio show or our YouTube program, Secular Spotlight. |
| 1:54.6 | So, if you have any burning questions for FFRF or nonbelievers in general, just email them to Secular Spotlight at |
| 2:03.3 | FFRF.org. That's secular spotlight at fFRF.org. And by the way, Askenathist |
| 2:11.8 | Day was officially proclaimed by the Secular Student Alliance, and it's a bit of a roving date, |
| 2:17.2 | and the idea is that secular |
| 2:19.1 | students can table on campuses, and it's kind of a nice way to combat evangelical predators on |
| 2:25.0 | campus, like Turning Point USA. And did I mention that Free Thought Radio is the weekly production |
| 2:32.4 | of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 2:35.1 | FFFRF works both to enforce the constitutional separation between religion and government, |
| 2:40.3 | dictated by our secular and entirely godless U.S. Constitution, and one cannot repeat that |
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