The Flame of Reason

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Mayday! Mayday! We listen to some of the oral arguments in a pivotal Supreme Court case heard Wednesday about whether a private Catholic charter school can be funded with public money. If allowed, this would deal a serious blow to public education. After reporting on state/church news in Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas, and decrying Attorney General Pam Bondi's "Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias" Task Force, we talk with Swedish humanist Christer Sturmark, author of the book To Light the Flame of Reason: Clear Thinking for the Twenty-First Century.

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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
0:41.3	Above us only sky
0:47.3	Imagine all the people
0:55.0	living for today Ah, ah, ah.
0:59.0	May day, May day, sending out an SOS.
1:04.0	May day, May day, hearts in distress.
1:09.0	May day, May day, send some help for me.
1:13.6	May Day, May Day.
1:16.6	Hello, and it is May Day, May Day.
1:19.6	The international distress symbol is very appropriate today.
1:23.6	I'm Annie Laurie Galore.
1:25.6	This is May Day.
1:26.6	That is the Jamaican singer Cocoa T, sending out his
1:31.5	May Day SOS. This week, of course, as you've heard, ends the first 100 days of the Trump
1:38.5	presidency. And this May Day, which is also officially and unconstitutionally designated as the National Day of Prayer by Congress,
1:49.7	is a day in which we are indeed sending out, R-S-O-S.
1:54.2	I'm Dan Barker.
1:55.8	Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and this is the May 1st episode of Free Thought Radio.
2:03.4	Leo Costello is our producer, and Tori Neels with Audio for the Arts, is our engineer.
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