The Clergy Project

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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We discuss the Christian nationalism behind the Jan. 6 insurrection and call for increased vaccination. After reporting state/church news and hearing the song "Just Say NO To Religion," we speak with Lon Ostrander, a former Wesleyan minister who is now president of The Clergy Project, which helps ministers and priests who no longer believe to leave the pulpit.

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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.
0:14.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:17.0	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 people Above us only sky.
0:48.2	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:52.2	Welcome to Freethought Radio.
1:04.8	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and happy end of July. Not so sad to see the month ending. We have a full newsie program for you today. So fasten your seatbelts.
1:13.4	And I'm Dan Barker. This is the Thursday, July 29th, 2021 edition of Freethought Radio.
1:23.6	Grant Blaschka of Audio for the Arts is producing this show in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall,
1:28.9	the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:34.3	And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:42.6	FFRF, for those of you who aren't familiar with it, is the premier Freethought membership group in North America,
1:48.2	with more than 35,000 active members. And we also work as a state church watchdog to keep religion out of government desperately needed. And we'd love to have you
1:53.8	join us if you're not a member at fFRF.org or ask for a copy of our newspaper, Free Thought Today.
2:02.8	We have a lot to talk about today, but in the second half of our show, we're going to talk
2:07.2	about preachers and priests who lose their faith, or some of us threw away our faith.
2:14.4	Joining us today will be Lon Ostrander. He's the president of the Clergy Project.
2:20.4	Lon, like me, is a former Christian preacher. He will tell us why he became an atheist and why he left
2:26.7	the ministry and what the clergy project is doing to help more than a thousand others do the same thing.
2:35.3	And Dan, you were original founder with Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett of the Clergy Project.
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