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They Won't Back Down
Freethought Radio - November 30, 2023 18:54 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsWe are asking Oklahoma's Superintendent of Education to resign for pushing religion in the schools and for verbally attacking FFRF. After honoring the life of freethinking TV correspondent Betty Rollin, we hear from two brave students — Marcus Stovall and Bear Bright — who are suing West Texas A...
Give thanks . . . where it is due.
Freethought Radio - November 22, 2023 19:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsOur Thanksgiving 2023 show features Godless Gospel performing “Let’s All Give Thanks,” interviews FFRF Counsel Sam Grover on FFRF’s new brief against religious censorship of drag shows, and features law Professor Mary Ziegler warning about the anti-abortion movement’s goal of fetal personhood.
Freedom From Fundamentalism
Freethought Radio - November 16, 2023 19:39 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsThis week we announce a Triumphant Trifecta of legal victories, ending high-school proselytizing in West Virginia, eliminating a religious test for public office in New Jersey, and stopping $1.5 million of South Carolina state funds from going to a religious school. Then we hear Jen Castle, the ...
How Fascism and Nazism Influenced Hindu Nationalism
Freethought Radio - November 09, 2023 20:33 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsGuest host FFRF Communications Director Amitabh Pal first recounts the state/church watchdog's achievements over the past few days — and the resulting media coverage. Then, he talks with University of Turin Professor Marzia Casolari about her groundbreaking book, “In the Shadow of the Swastika,”...
Students Win in West Virginia
Freethought Radio - November 02, 2023 19:33 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsFFRF Legal Director Rebecca Markert and FFRF Attorney Liz Cavell fill in as guest hosts this week. They discuss the alarming election of a Christian nationalism devotee to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. FFRF Senior Counsel Patrick Elliott joins to share an exciting update in one of...
For Heaven's Sake
Freethought Radio - October 26, 2023 16:02 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsFor a special themed show, FFRF co-presidents Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker discuss the harm of belief in heaven and hell. Songs include "Heaven" by Rupert Brooke, "Pack Up Your Sins (and Go to the Devil in Hades)" by Irving Berlin, "Declaration of the Free" by Robert Ingersoll, "Preacher &...
We Won't Back Down
Freethought Radio - October 19, 2023 19:12 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsOklahoma's Superintendent of Public Education Ryan Walters is going after FFRF for complaining about that state's creation of a "public" religious charter school. FFRF Legal Fellow Sammi Lawrence tells us about the new amicus brief we filed in favor of Southwest Airlines enforcing their policy a...
What’s Wrong With the Ten Commandments?
Freethought Radio - October 12, 2023 18:29 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsFFRF Co-Presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor energetically demolish the Ten Commandments, both as moral guides and as an influence on U.S. law. After hearing the Philip Appleman poem "Noah," read by Phil and his wife Marjorie, we listen to Dan’s song "Lucifer's Lament," about how Satan ...
We Of Little Faith
Freethought Radio - October 06, 2023 12:42 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsFFRF Legal Fellow Sammi Lawrence describes FFRF’s newest lawsuit challenging a religious test for public office in New Jersey. FFRF’s Equal Justice Works Fellow Kat Grant tells us about the testimony she gave at the Wisconsin capitol in opposition to a religiously motivated bill that would prohi...
A Wall of Separation
Freethought Radio - September 28, 2023 19:43 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsFind out why Alabama Governor Kay Ivey and Texas Senator Ted Cruz are dissing the Freedom From Religion Foundation. After hearing Dan Barker's song "The Battle of Church and State," we talk with the distinguished scholar Steven K. Green about his book Separating Church and State: A History.
Christian White Supremacy
Freethought Radio - September 21, 2023 19:03 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsWe report four state-church victories this week: Minnesota, Oklahoma and two in California. We also report on the advocacy group FFRF Action Fund, working to keep religion out of politics and law. Then we speak with Robert P. Jones, president and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute...
Do Say Gay
Freethought Radio - September 14, 2023 18:53 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsWe protest coaches forcing prayer and baptism on students, a public library system closing on the sabbath to "honor God" and judges who inject bible verses into their decisions. Courageous freethinking high-school student Will Larkins tells us how he is protesting Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law. ...
Asian American Apostate
Freethought Radio - September 07, 2023 18:21 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsWe expose the hypocrisy of praying football coach Joe Kennedy and complain about religious incursions into the public schools. After remembering the life of "Lone Star Freethinker" Catherine Fahringer (1922–2008), we talk with R. Scott Okamoto, author of Asian American Apostate: Losing Religion ...
Indian Jeopardy
Freethought Radio - August 31, 2023 18:46 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsWe protest bibles and prayers in public schools and "In God We Trust" on public buildings. Freethought Radio co-host Annie Laurie Gaylor wraps up her series on "The Cult of Fetus Worship." Then we commemorate the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Indian rationalist Narendra Dabholkar by s...
How religion became more conservative and society more secular
Freethought Radio - August 24, 2023 18:35 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratings"It's Too Darn Hot!" And evangelicals are making global warming worse. After reporting state/church news in Indiana, South Carolina, Colorado, Ohio and Florida, Freethought Radio co-host Annie Laurie Gaylor reads more of her blog: "Let's Abort the Cult of Fetus Worship." Then we speak with Berke...
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover
Freethought Radio - August 17, 2023 19:29 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsAfter reporting on state/church complaints and victories in Oklahoma, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Indiana and California, Annie Laurie asks, "Is there a cult of fetus worship?" Then we speak with Stanford Professor Lerone A. Martin about his illuminating new book, The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: H...
Beyond Doubt
Freethought Radio - August 10, 2023 18:53 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsWe announce a new lawsuit attempting to stop public money from repairing churches in New Jersey. We celebrate the birthdate of the "Great Agnostic" orator and author Robert G. Ingersoll by hearing his "Love" recitation set to music. Then we speak with University of Aberdeen professor Isabella Ka...
Humanly Possible
Freethought Radio - August 03, 2023 21:52 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsWe announce a new lawsuit to stop Oklahoma officials from creating the nation's first religious public charter school. After hearing Rupert Brooke's poem "Heaven" (from the point of view of a fish) set to music by Dan Barker, Annie Laurie questions why so many Americans still believe in angels. ...
Ban the Bible?
Freethought Radio - July 27, 2023 19:17 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsFFRF attorney Chris Line explains why many evangelicals are boycotting the "Barbie" movie. Colorado activist Rob Rogers tells us how he is protesting book banning by insisting that the bible should also be banned. Then we remember freethinking author and editor James A. Haught, from West Virgini...
Conspiracy theories
Freethought Radio - July 20, 2023 20:05 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsFFRF litigation attorney Sam Grover tells us about his trip to Little Rock to do oral arguments in FFRF's federal lawsuit challenging the placement of a Ten Commandments monument at the Arkansas capitol. Then we interview the well-known skeptic Michael Shermer about his book Conspiracy: Why the ...
Apes and Gods
Freethought Radio - July 13, 2023 17:36 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsAtheists have bragging rights when it comes to LGBTQ-plus matters. We talk about state/church issues in Utah, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, South Carolina and Canada. After hearing the 1954 Woody Guthrie song "Ballad of Old Man Trump," Professor and author Hector Garcia tells us about "Apes, Gods an...
Bad decisions
Freethought Radio - July 06, 2023 18:23 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsWe tell Trump that atheists are not arsonists. After hearing Henry Fonda defend freethought and academic liberty in 1942, we listen to George M. Cohan's freethinking 1904 song "Life's a Very Funny Proposition After All." Then FFRF Associate Counsel Liz Cavell and FFRF Legal Director Rebecca Mark...
Narco-Pastors
Freethought Radio - June 29, 2023 18:17 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsWe complain about religion and government mixing in Texas, Colorado, New York, Florida and Oklahoma. Freethought Radio co-host Annie Laurie Gaylor tells Southern Baptist women: "Please stay home next Sunday." After hearing lyricist Sheldon Harnick (who died last week) sing his cautionary song "M...
Playing God
Freethought Radio - June 22, 2023 18:16 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsWe report state/church victories and complaints in Texas, Alabama, Utah, California and Wisconsin, and we chastise Sen. Josh Hawley for his erroneous and tone-deaf Juneteenth comments about Christianity and slavery. Then we speak with Catholic journalist Mary Jo McConahay about her new book, Pla...
Testimony
Freethought Radio - June 15, 2023 17:54 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsStudents complain about graduating in a church. We talk about women pastors, Catholic charter schools, Ten Commandments and prayer in public schools, child marriage and book banning. We talk with Sheryl Monk, a brave South Carolinian who is complaining about the "Lord's Prayer" at school board m...
Ellery's protest
Freethought Radio - June 08, 2023 18:51 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsOklahoma Catholic charter school complaint; bibles banned in Utah schools; state/church complaints in Arizona and Georgia schools. After noting the death of televangelist Pat Robertson, we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the June 1963 Abington v. Schempp Supreme Court decision that removed b...
A young Humanist
Freethought Radio - June 01, 2023 17:50 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsAmericans are losing confidence in God’s existence; Tulsa massacre anniversary; exoneration of ‘witches'; Uganda’s anti-gay law; state/church complaints in Arkansas and Michigan. We hear Roy Zimmerman's hilarious "Wedding of Church and State" song and Shelley Segal's moving "Apocalyptic Love Son...
Everyday Crusade
Freethought Radio - May 25, 2023 19:29 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsThe good, the bad, and the ugly: Texas Ten Commandments bill fails; anti-abortion laws proliferate; Illinois reports widespread clergy sex abuse; proselytizing school bus driver; legislative prayer; graduations in churches. After we hear Dan Barker's song "The Freethinker Blues," FFRF's Director...
Ghosts of the Orphanage
Freethought Radio - May 18, 2023 19:32 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsWe talk about abortion, book banning and the X-rated bible. We also talk with "God." After hearing the song "The Trinity" (words by Robert Ingersoll), we speak with investigative journalist Christine Kenneally about her chilling new book Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a C...
Sex and Religion
Freethought Radio - May 11, 2023 20:01 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsWe talk about religion and abortion rights, the IRS and church electioneering, the Texas Ten Commandments bill and clergy sexual abuse. After Annie Laurie describes the bible's role in asking rape victims "Why didn't you scream?", FFRF contributing author Barbara Alvarez tells us about her new b...
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