The Trouble With Buddha
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Bad news for state/church separation: the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Bladensburg cross to be constitutional, and intolerant right-wing ideologue Tony Perkins (president of the Christian Family Research Council) has ironically been appointed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. FFRF's full-page ad in the New York Times challenges the Christian-nationalist attack on reproductive rights. After hearing Ta Nehisi Coates' reasoned plea for reparations, we talk with author and screenwriter (Bill & Ted movies) Chris Matheson about his video "God's Art Museum" and about his upcoming book, The Buddha's Story.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
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| 0:13.6 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.5 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky |
| 0:42.3 | Imagine all the people |
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| 1:37.2 | and tomorrow will be the official start of summer. |
| 1:41.0 | So happy summer solstice. |
| 1:42.8 | I'm Annie Laurie Galer. And I'm Dan Barker. And today is the June 20th, |
| 1:48.7 | 2019 edition of Free Thought Radio. Buzz Kemper, as almost always, is our very capable engineer today, |
| 1:56.6 | producing this show in the Stephen Yule. I mean, he's always very capable, but he's almost always our engineer. |
| 2:03.3 | He's producing in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 2:08.0 | Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 2:13.9 | And the Freedom from Religion Foundation is a national organization, about 31,000 members in North America, actually in the United States and more in North America. |
| 2:23.5 | And it produces this weekly radio program and podcast. |
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| 2:48.8 | religion out of government, and we hope you'll join us if you're |
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