Why I Left
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Senator Grassley tells Justin Scott the reason he will protect the rights of nonbelievers is because he believes in Jesus Christ. FFRF legal fellow Ryan Jayne explains our recent victory stopping a live nativity scene at an Indiana high school. After hearing the "obnoxious atheist" singer/songwriter (with Magnetic Field) Stephen Merritt's freethought song "How I Failed Ethics," we talk with former Christian minister Bart Campolo (son of the well-known evangelical preacher Tony Campolo), now a humanist chaplain, about the book he co-wrote with his father, Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son.
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| 0:56.6 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and secularism is on the March. |
| 1:01.7 | March, I get it. It's the month of March. And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:13.7 | This is the March 9, 2017 edition of Free Thought Radio, produced in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, the national offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:18.8 | Buzz Kemper is our very capable engineer, and a shout out to those of you who may be listening |
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