Why Millions are Leaving Islam
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We review major news of the week: The pope blaming Satan instead of the church for child abusers within its ranks; oral arguments in the Bladensburg cross case before the Supreme Court; the 4th anniversary of the murder of atheist author Avijit Roy by Islamist terrorists, and the Trump Administration's new assault against Planned Parenthood. Cheryl Kolbe, director of FFRF's Portland chapter, joins us to talk about how she just persuaded Portland's city council to give nonbelievers protected status. Then "Why I Am Not a Muslim" author Ibn Warraq tells us more about atheism and freethought in the Muslim world and why millions are leaving Islam.
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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. |
| 0:13.5 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.1 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:53.1 | Could it be Satan. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. Welcome to FreeDot Radio. |
| 0:57.6 | And that, of course, was Dana Carvey portraying the church lady, and that's his famous line from SNL. |
| 1:05.2 | And later on today's show, we're going to be talking a little bit about Satan. |
| 1:09.7 | More specifically, the Pope, shamelessly blaming priestly pedophilia |
| 1:14.1 | on Satan, rather than the Vatican taking responsibility for hiring hundreds of, not thousands |
| 1:20.8 | of pedophiles and decades of cover-up of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. |
| 1:25.7 | This is our February 28th, 2019 edition of Free Thought |
| 1:29.0 | Radio. Thankfully, the last day of February. I always think of that song in Gilbert and Sullivan's |
| 1:35.9 | Pirates of Penzance, where the Pirate King says that for as beastly a month as February, |
| 1:43.2 | 28 days as a rule are plenty, and I would agree. |
| 1:47.0 | Neither God, because there isn't one, nor Dan Barker, my trusty co-host, are my co-pilots. |
| 1:53.3 | Today I'm flying solo. Dan is on a six-state tour that includes 10 speaking events in 12 days. |
| 1:59.6 | That's Tennessee, Georgia, Alaska, where he is today, |
| 2:03.8 | Washington, Idaho, and Texas. He won't be back on Free Thought Radio for two more weeks. |
| 2:09.2 | You can check out FFRF's events link at our website, FFRF.org, to check whether Dan will be |
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