The Atheist Muslim
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
After reporting on winter solstice signs FFRF has been posting around the country (one of which, in Boca Raton, was immediately vandalized) in response to nativity scenes on public property, we comment on two theocrats recently appointed by the president elect: Betsy Devos for Secretary of Education and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt for the Environmental Protection Agency (who has attacked FFRF). In honor of the anniversary of the adoption of the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791, we hear Rev. Billy and the Stop Shopping choir perform the song "The First Amendment." Then we talk with Ali A. Rizvi, who grew up in Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, about his new book The Atheist Muslim: A Journey From Religion to Reason.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:09.6 | Irreverent views, news, music, and interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.7 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the feet Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.1 | Welcome to Feed That Radio. |
| 0:57.1 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and hello, all you faithless, faithful listeners. |
| 1:03.6 | This is radio for the rest of us, and please consider this show your Winter Solstice Survival Guide. |
| 1:12.6 | And don't we need that this time of year? I'm Dan Barker. This is the December 8, 2016 edition of Freeethought Radio. Steve Gotcher is our engineer who produces this show in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
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| 2:08.4 | provide a home for those of us who are personally free from religion because we think it's |
| 2:14.4 | terribly important that reason should prevail in our social policy |
| 2:18.6 | and our laws, and that if the free thought point of view is excluded, we are not going to have reason, |
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