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Freethought Radio

Woman, Church and State

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We talk about the eclipse, an intersex atheist, and a freethinking songwriter. We report on state/church complaints and victories. Then, we speak with Danielle Nagle, director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Museum in upper New York state dedicated to the 19th-century feminist, abolitionist, author of the 1893 book Woman, Church and State, and advocate for secular government.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,

0:15.0

Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.

0:19.3

Imagine there's no heaven.

0:21.6

It's easy if you try.

0:27.6

No hell below us, above us only sky.

0:41.3

Imagine all the people living for today. Welcome to Free Thought Radio and happy April.

0:59.3

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.

1:01.1

And I'm Dan Barker.

1:03.5

No hell below us, above us, only sky.

1:07.7

Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. And this is the April 4th,

1:15.1

2024 episode of Free Thought Radio. Tori Neels, who is an engineer with Audio for the Arts,

1:23.3

is engineering today's show in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall,

1:29.6

which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.

1:36.8

And the eclipse is coming up. Here in Madison, we're only going to see a partial eclipse of the

1:42.2

sun on Monday, but we are close enough that if the weather's clear, it should be a pretty impressive display of a natural event, which we all know now, unlike our superstitious ancestors, has nothing to do with anything supernatural.

1:59.8

Free That Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, an all-natural

2:05.6

show.

2:06.6

And we have two purposes to keep religion out of government as our Constitution dictates,

2:11.6

believe it or not, big fight, and to educate about the views of those of us who are

2:16.6

personally free from religion

2:18.3

and whose voices are often squelched, not listen to, denigrated, discounted, even though we are a

2:26.4

growingly large segment of the U.S. population with almost three and ten individuals having no

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