Where did religion come from?
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today's guest, philosophy Professor Patrick J. Hurley, discusses his insightful new book, Religion, Power and Illusion: A Genealogy of Religious Belief. And FFRF Legal Fellow Hirsh Joshi talks about how an FFRF complaint caused a Minnesota jail to repaint — and hopefully repent — over a massive Ten Commandments display.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:19.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:25.4 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.1 | No hell below us |
| 0:41.3 | above us only sky. |
| 0:56.6 | Imagine all the people living for today. Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome to the May 16th, |
| 1:01.8 | 2024 episode of Free Thought Radio, |
| 1:05.6 | the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:10.5 | I'm flying solo today. My co-host, Dan Barker, of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:12.5 | I'm flying solo today. |
| 1:16.7 | My co-host, Dan Barker, is in South America, |
| 1:21.5 | speaking at free thought events in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile. |
| 1:27.3 | He'll rejoin this broadcast, podcast, in time for our May 30th show. |
| 1:32.1 | And actually, May 30th is also our 35th wedding anniversary. |
| 1:33.2 | He'll be back in time. |
| 1:37.7 | And he's going to tell us all about what he's learned about free thought in South America. |
| 1:42.4 | Dan and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:45.9 | Tori Neals, with Audio for the Arts Arts is our engineer in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio here in Freethought Hall, which is the National Office |
| 1:52.3 | of the Freedom from Religion Foundation based in Madison, Wisconsin. If you're not familiar |
| 1:58.0 | with FFRF, it's the nation's largest association of free thinkers, |
| 2:03.6 | and that means atheists, agnostics, others who are personally free from religion, with |
| 2:09.6 | over 40,000 current members, and we work very hard to keep the government free from religion |
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