The Virus of Faith
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week on Freethought Radio: President Trump wants to "pack the pews" of churches by Easter. Vice President Pence encourages believers to continue tithing. Governors, mayors and lawmakers promote prayer as a response to the pandemic. After hearing the Philip Appleman song "In A Dark Time," we talk by phone with journalist and author Susan Jacoby, from her New York City apartment where she is sheltering in place in the coronavirus epicenter, about battling the virus of faith.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan 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 |
| 0:41.0 | imagine all the people |
| 0:47.1 | living for today |
| 1:00.7 | and welcome to feed Thought Radio in this era of the coronavirus and pandemic. |
| 1:03.7 | We're glad to be bringing you Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:07.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and I hope you're staying safe and well. And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:09.1 | This is the March 26th, 2020 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:15.1 | Today, our engineer and producer in the studio is Noah Gilfillon. He's with audio for the arts. |
| 1:22.3 | Producing the show in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:27.6 | the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:32.6 | And of course, like most people around the country, our staff is working remotely. |
| 1:37.9 | There's a dispensation for media, and nobody's here, so we're fortunate to be able to continue to be in the studio just for this production. |
| 1:46.1 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:50.8 | We have two purposes, and both of them are basically to fight the virus of religion. |
| 1:56.3 | Dan, you know that. |
| 1:57.2 | We're representing those of us who are personally free from religion, over 31,000 |
| 2:02.7 | members. And we work to keep that virus of religion out of our government. And boy, has FFRF and |
| 2:09.7 | our staff been working hard this week because there are so many public officials who are taking |
| 2:16.0 | advantage of the coronavirus pandemic and consternation |
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