"Unholy"

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We honor Independence Day by celebrating our independence from religion. After hearing the optimistic song "There's a Good Time Coming" by Stephen Foster (born July 4, 1826), we talk with reporter and author Sarah Posner about her book, Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:14.0	Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try
0:23.6	No hell below us
0:29.6	Above us only sky
0:36.6	Imagine all the people
0:42.3	Living for today Oh Ah Ah... and happy Independence Day weekend. We free thinkers are declaring our independence from religion and are celebrating the fact that the founders of the United
1:29.9	States, for all their massive problems, and I'm talking about slavery, not enfranchising women and
1:37.5	on and on, they got at least one thing really correct, and that was by adopting a constitution that did declare its independence
1:46.9	from religion and religious control. And I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Free Thought Radio, and this is
1:54.5	the July 1st, 2021 edition of Free Thought Radio. Grant Blashka is our engineer today. He's producing the show in the
2:04.8	Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, which is the National Office of the
2:11.3	Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. And it's nice to be back in the studio
2:16.6	after a long year plus siege there.
2:20.7	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and we work
2:26.6	to keep religion out of government as the secular and godless U.S. Constitution mandates, and we work
2:33.5	to educate the public about the views of
2:35.5	those of us who are not religious, and we're very proud of our views, and we're very proud
2:41.5	of the achievements of so many free thinkers in improving this world, our only world.
2:47.3	If you're a member, thank you. If you're not, or just curious, we'd be glad to send
2:52.6	you some information, including a complementary issue of our newspaper Free Thought Today, which is
2:58.2	lively and interesting. In a brochure, I bought her 40-plus years of activism, and FFRF, by the way,
3:05.0	is a 501C3 educational charity.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Freedom From Religion Foundation, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Freedom From Religion Foundation and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.