Women Beyond Belief

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week, we talk about the religious attack on abortion rights. FFRF attorney Liz Cavell explains FFRF's friend-of-the court brief we filed at the U.S. Supreme Court challenging Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban. Then we talk with Mandisa Thomas, founder and president of Black Nonbelievers about the "Women of Color Beyond Belief" conference in Chicago.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:14.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:17.0	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 living for today.
0:50.3	Welcome to Free Thought Radio.
0:52.7	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and Happy Autumn. And that was on September 21st, Tuesday. It's either, the Atomnal Equinox is either the 20th or 21st every year. And isn't it nice that Christianity hasn't managed to appropriate the Atominal Equinox for religion? Well, let's use it for non-religion maybe.
1:13.4	I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Freethought Radio.
1:16.6	And this is the September 23rd, 2021 edition of Freethought Radio.
1:22.6	Grant Balashka of Audio for the Arts is our engineer today, producing the show in the Stephen
1:29.0	Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom
1:35.7	from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:39.0	And the Freedom from Religion Foundation produces this weekly broadcast and podcast. And if you're not acquainted with
1:46.6	the Freedom from Religion Foundation, I can let you know that we began nationally in 1978 as a state
1:53.0	church watchdog and a national association for like-minded non-believers. We've gone from the original
1:58.9	two of us, my mother and myself, to over 35,000
2:02.6	current dues-paying members in North America today. If you're a member, thank you. If not,
2:09.5	we'd be glad to send you a complimentary packet of our newspaper and a brochure about our many
2:15.4	achievements to keep religion out of government.
2:18.9	This Sunday, it's the anniversary of the birth of the great American composer and songwriter,
2:25.1	George Gershwin. He was born September 26, 1898. George and his lyricist brother Ira Gershwin were born into a secular, non-observant Jewish family, and they were completely non-religious.
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