The Quiet Demise
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The Catholic Church lobbies for special treatment to gain billions of PPP dollars. FFRF attorney Ryan Jayne tells us about the secret phone calls between the White House and religious groups to funnel money to Trump's preachers. Then law professors Nelson Tebbe and Micah Schwartzman discuss their powerful New York Times article, "The quiet demise of the separation of church and state."
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:15.2 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:19.6 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:25.8 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us. |
| 0:39.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:56.7 | Welcome to F Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:58.4 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, |
| 0:59.7 | and this is Radio for the rest of us. |
| 1:02.3 | And I'm Dan Barker, |
| 1:03.5 | your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:06.7 | This is the July 16th, |
| 1:08.8 | 2020 edition of Freeethought Radio. |
| 1:11.8 | Noah Gilfellon and Buzz Kemper are engineering this show today from Audio for the Arts, |
| 1:19.2 | while Annie Laurie and I are hosting from our Safer at Home makeshift studio in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:26.2 | And Free Thought Radio is, as always, the weekly production of the |
| 1:29.9 | Freedom from Religion Foundation, which is a 501c3 educational nonprofit, existing as a national |
| 1:37.3 | group since 1978, working to promote the separation of church and state and to educate the public about non-theists. |
| 1:47.0 | Today we're going to talk about the quiet demise of the separation of church and state. |
| 1:54.0 | We should play some like sad music or something, like a dirge or something. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Freedom From Religion Foundation, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Freedom From Religion Foundation and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

