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Freethought Radio

The Rise of Hindu Nationalism

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

FFRF's Director of Strategic Response, Constitutional attorney Andrew Seidel tells us about our recent final victory in our 5-year federal lawsuit challenging prayer and preaching at the Chino Hills, California, school board. After hearing the song "Reincarnation," words by cowboy poet Wallace D. McRae and music by Dan Barker, we talk with FFRF's Director of Communications Amitabh Pal about the rise of Hindu nationalism in India, with alarming parallels to the push for Christian nationalism in the U.S.

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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.

0:13.5

Imagine there's no heaven.

0:20.2

It's easy if you try

0:22.6

No hell below us

0:33.6

Above us only sky

0:35.6

Imagine all the people

0:42.0

Living for today

0:48.3

Welcome to Feed That Radio.

0:52.0

I'm Annie Laurie Galar and this is Radio for the rest of us.

0:56.2

And I'm Dan Barker.

0:58.1

Today is the January 24th, 2019 edition of Free Thought Radio,

1:03.5

for the rest of us, meaning Freethinkers, Atheist, Agnostics.

1:08.4

Buzz Kemper is our engineer.

1:10.2

He's producing this show, we think, for the last time in Audio for the Arts,

1:15.7

while our Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, a few blocks from here,

1:21.2

is being expanded and remodled.

1:24.3

Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in

1:28.5

Madison, Wisconsin. And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from

1:33.5

Religion Foundation. And regular listeners know that FFRF has two purposes, to educate the

1:41.2

public about non-theism. And we serve as North America's largest association of free thinkers,

1:47.6

atheists agnostics, or whatever you like to call yourself, and we work very diligently to

1:53.2

defend the constitutional principle of separation between church and state, and we would love to have

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