Threat to Democracy

Freethought Radio

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Guest: Philip S. Gorski. This week we listen to the moving testimony before the National Capital Memorial Advisory Committee in favor of a new monument to honor America's "forgotten founder" Thomas Paine — testimony by Rep. Jamie Raskin, Margaret Downey (president of the Thomas Paine Memorial Association), military veteran Greg Jones and Black Nonbelievers President Mandisa Thomas. Then we talk with Philip S. Gorski, co-author of The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy.

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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.
0:19.9	It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today.
0:50.3	Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:13.3	All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. That's a quote by the great agnostic orator Robert Green Ingersoll, whose anniversary of his birth is today, August 11th. He was born 1833. I think he might amend that to say, all religions except perhaps the creedless religion of Unitarianism or Universalism. Or maybe the religion
1:19.1	of coffee or so. However, you will use the word religion. Yeah. Well, so I'm Dan Barker,
1:25.2	and it's how happy 190th birthday, Robert Green, Ingersoll, although...
1:29.6	The most famous agnostic and freethinker of the 19th century.
1:33.5	Of course, he didn't believe in life after death, so he can't hear me say happy birthday.
1:37.0	But anyway, happy birthday, Robert Green, Ingersoll.
1:40.5	Annie, and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and this is the August 11th, 2020 edition of Freethought Radio.
1:50.9	Grant Blaschka is our engineer. He's with the recording studio Audio for the Arts.
1:56.6	He's engineering right here in our building in the Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall.
2:02.4	This building is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
2:07.9	And we've recently learned that this great benefactor and his wife, Diane, who also recently died, pronounced their name UL.
2:16.6	It's spelled U HL.
2:18.2	Did I say it wrong?
2:19.9	Yeah, because we've said it wrong for years. We've only learned posthumously that we were doing that.
2:24.6	Stephen Ool, friendly, atheist.
2:26.0	But we are so grateful to him and Diane for all their help. The Freedom from Religion Foundation
2:32.5	produces Free thought radio.
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