The Long Reach of Religion
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We listen to Seth Andrews, host of "The Thinking Atheist" podcast, read Dan Barker's article "The Top 10 Absolute Worst Old Testament Verses." Then, we hear Washington Post columnist Kate Cohen's entertaining and thought-provoking speech at FFRF's 2024 convention called "Tampon Tim and the Long Reach of Religion."
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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. |
| 0:58.6 | Hello and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:01.8 | I'm Annie Laurie Galar and Happy New Year. |
| 1:04.3 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:09.5 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. And this is our first show of 2025. |
| 1:12.8 | This is the January 2nd, 2025 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:18.3 | Leo Costello is our producer, |
| 1:21.0 | and Noah Gilfillon with Audio for the Arts is our engineer. |
| 1:26.2 | We're recording Free Thought Radio in the Stephen Ool friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:32.7 | Free Thought Hall is the national office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:38.9 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:45.0 | which is a membership association of more than 40,000 non-believers who are dedicated to the principle of separation |
| 1:52.2 | between state and church enshrined in the First Amendment of our Constitution, our godless |
| 1:58.2 | Constitution and FFFF has been working for nearly 50 years, |
| 2:01.6 | very hard to buttress that wall of separation between state and church. And if you are a member, |
| 2:08.1 | thank you. And if not, it would be a great gift to FFRF to start the New Year out and a gift |
| 2:14.1 | to yourself to mobilize, to defend the Constitution and this principle |
| 2:20.3 | when it has never been under greater assault. |
| 2:24.1 | We need to band together. |
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