The problem with prayer
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After addressing the numerous problems with the National Prayer Breakfast, we speak with Central Florida Freethought Association director Joseph Richardson about how his secular invocation before a county board was "corrected" by a Christian prayer. Then we speak with Owosso, Mich., City Councilor Emily Olson, who received a death threat after she complained about prayers before council meetings.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.3 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.7 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.5 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.8 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:41.3 | Living for today |
| 0:47.3 | Not the church, not the state, women must decide their faith. Not the church, not the state, women must decide their faith. |
| 0:55.5 | Not the church, not the state, women must decide their faith. |
| 0:59.9 | Not the church, not the state. |
| 1:02.0 | People must decide their faith. |
| 1:04.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Geller, and welcome to Free Thought Radio, |
| 1:07.6 | and that, of course, are demonstrators from Sunday, what should have been the 50th anniversary of Roversus Wade, marching, chanting, protesting. |
| 1:17.1 | We have to keep marching, chanting, protesting, and voting to get back our rights. |
| 1:22.1 | And I'm Dan Barker, and Annie Laurie and I were at that protest in Madison, Wisconsin this last weekend. |
| 1:27.5 | It was pretty energetic. |
| 1:29.9 | And it was the target protest around the country. |
| 1:34.2 | All eyes are on Wisconsin because of an upcoming Supreme Court race that will affect the ban here in Wisconsin. |
| 1:41.0 | I think you can see photos of that on our webpage of some of the march and some of us |
| 1:45.8 | being involved in that. So I'm Dan Barker, Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom |
| 1:51.9 | from Religion Foundation. This is the January 26th, 20203 edition of Free Thought Radio. Grant Blaschka, |
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