Unfriendly Faith
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The Alabama abortion bill, motivated by religious dogma, is in the news this week. FFRF's legal fellow Chris Line tells us about a state/church victory in Pennsylvania stopping "God Bless America" broadcast in a public school, and about a Texas county that displays Christian crosses on its courthouse. Then we speak with author, activist and award-winning journalist Janet Heimlich, founder of Child-Friendly Faith and co-host of the "Parenting Beyond Belief" podcast, about her book Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment, and about the "horrific" abuse at a Christian Texas ranch for at-risk children occurring over many decades.
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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. |
| 0:13.3 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky imagine all the people |
| 0:42.3 | living for today |
| 0:48.3 | Hello resistors and iconoclasts. |
| 0:53.3 | This is radio for the rest of Us, Freethought Radio. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Galar. |
| 0:58.0 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 0:59.9 | This is the May 16th, 2019 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:04.9 | Our engineer today is Buzz Kemper, who's producing this show in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Free Thought |
| 1:12.5 | Hall. Free Thought Hall is the national office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, |
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| 1:23.7 | and FFRF has two purposes to keep religion out of government and to promote free thoughts. |
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| 2:21.6 | Today on the second half of the show, we're going to talk with Janet Heimelich. |
| 2:25.6 | She's the author of Breaking Their Will, Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment. |
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