Wild Faith

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week we honor the life and work of our friend, the Broadway composer Charles Strouse—who died last week at age 96—who wrote "Annie" and "Bye Bye Birdie" and many other musicals and songs, by hearing some of his music, including "Poor Little Me," which he co-wrote with FFRF Co-President Dan Barker. Then, we speak with journalist Talia Lavin, author of the book Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America.

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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.
0:21.6	It's easy if you try.
0:27.6	No hell below us Above us
0:39.3	Only sky
0:41.3	Imagine that.
0:57.4	Hello and welcome to Free Thought Radio.
1:00.1	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:02.1	And I'm Dan Barker.
1:04.2	Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:09.7	This is the May 22nd, 2025 episode of Free Thought Radio.
1:15.5	We're recording in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, which is our national
1:21.6	headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:24.1	And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:30.2	which has two purposes,
1:32.2	to represent the views of those of us who are personally free from religion,
1:37.4	and to keep state and church separate as our godless constitution requires.
1:43.9	So we do two things.
1:45.8	And we would love to have you join our 42,000 plus other members in North America
1:50.7	by joining us today at fFRF.org.
1:55.7	Today we're going to ask, how did the Christian right become so powerful and why are their views so dangerous?
2:06.0	In the second half of today's show, we're going to talk with Talia Lavin. She's the author of the
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