A weekly show, broadcast live from Madison, Wis., on 92.1 FM, Saturdays 11 a.m. to 12 noon. Hosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents, Freedom From Religion Foundation. Slightly irreverent views, news, music and interviews.
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Discussion regarding secularism, humanism, and atheism.
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Tune In, Pay It Forward, Question EVERYthing!
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An atheist podcast hosted by John C. Snider.
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Future of the World's Largest Secular Democracy
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Guest host Amitabh Pal, FFRF Communications Director, begins by talking about the various ways the Freedom From Religion Foundation is making waves: at Capitol Hill receptions, during major conferences and in the media. Then, the show has an interview with Indian activist Shabnam Hashmi discussing possibly the most important election in the history…
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The last DFTR show means new beginning. Join us to discuss the beginnings of ASK and how we've been moving forward.
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FFRF attorney Sam Grover joins us to describe our newest amicus ("friend of the court") brief over an Arizona school board member who refuses to stop pushing her religion at board meetings. We announce FFRF's "Godless Gospel" musical show to be performed in Manhattan June 24 and 25 (and hear a sneak preview). Then, we speak with Adam Neiblum, autho…
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#364 – Perfect people can throw stones?
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The teachings of Jesus, when examined, are not exactly saying moral things.
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"Christian nationalists are truly in la-la land," says Annie Laurie Gaylor. We cover state/church news in Tennessee, Arizona, Maine, Wisconsin and Louisiana. To honor Earth Day (April 22), after hearing satiric songwriter Roy Zimmerman perform his climate-change song "We Are The Worst," well-known Wisconsin TV meteorologist Bob Lindmeier tells us t…
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#363 – Would adding Jesus to movies make them better?
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Want Jesus in your life? What about in your favorite movies?
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We talk about Charlie Chaplin, the “Lucy” fossil, the eclipse, and state/church issues in Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina, Arizona, Utah, Louisiana and Uganda. Then, we speak with journalism Professor Diane Winston about her new book Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision.…
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What if God changed his plans? Maybe he already did, about 2000 years ago. How should we face changes in general.?
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Woman, Church and State
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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 …
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#361 - Common sense. Also A.I.
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Atheists discuss common sense and how it interfaces with religion.. Later in the show we discuss A.I. and the race to install 'values' from the world's various societies.
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Abortion is in the news this week. FFRF attorneys analyze oral arguments in the mifepristone (abortion pill) case before the Supreme Court that was taken by religious-right groups. Then, we speak with U.K. journalist Siân Norris about her book Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global.…
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FFRF Senior Counsel Patrick Elliott tells us about FFRF's newest federal lawsuit challenging religious discrimination against the Satanic Temple's desire to host afterschool club meetings for children in Memphis, Tenn. Then, FFRF Director of Governmental Affairs Mark Dann and Senior Policy Counsel Ryan Jayne describe how the FFRF Action Fund (a 501…
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#360 - What would Mr Rogers do?
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Ever think how Jesus would fair when compare to Mr. Rogers where compassion and empathy were concerned? We think he would lose out, big time.
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Many FFRF victories and legal complaints to talk about this week. Since today is "Pi Day," and π is irrational, we hear the irreverent Joe Hill song about the irrational belief of "pie in the sky" called "The Preacher and the Slave." Then we speak with Steven Emmert, Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America, working to "protect the e…
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Atheists talk about "Woke" and what it means to them.. And why the religious (Christian, Muslims, etc.) don't seem to be, even thought they give it's tenants lip-service all the time. Indeed, they clam to own the very morality it teaches.
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Atheist Public Official
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After we report on state/church violations and victories in Illinois, California, Kentucky, Alabama, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, FFRF's Senior Policy Counsel Ryan Jayne tells us "everything you need to know about public school chaplain bills" that are being introduced in many states. Then, we speak with Wisconsin state Sen. Kelda Roys, an openly atheis…
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“Welcome to the end of democracy,” said a Christian nationalist leader. This week, we parse many of such anti-democratic comments made by evangelical leaders. After hearing a Spanish-language version of the love song “It's Only Natural,” we talk with Enrico Gnaulati, author of the book Flourishing Love: A Secular Guide to Lasting Intimate Relations…
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#358 – God - Jesus' dad or step-dad, and other topics
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According to the story, god the father,Joseph was the step-dad? Nah, think about it. God is as much the biological father as Joseph. i.e. none. But it was Joseph who raised him since day one. He's the real dad.
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FFRF's Equal Justice Works Legal Fellow Kat Grant describes the amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief they wrote for FFRF in a case involving an Oregonian Christian who is challenging the law prohibiting her from discriminating against LGBTQ+ children in the adoption process. Then, we talk about the new documentary film "God and Country,” produced by …
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#357 - Atheist responses to listener comments.
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Atheist responses to listener comments.
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#356 - The Inconvenient News
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Not the good news, nor the bad news. It's The Inconvenient News
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This week we talk about Christian nationalism, leaving the Mormon Church, and religion in the classroom. After listening to part of our TV interview with Rep. Jared Huffman about the theocratic Speaker of the House, we talk with historian Robin Vose, author of The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle Over Word and Image for the Gre…
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Prayer is the target of this week's show: the National Prayer Breakfast and school-board prayer. For Valentine's Day, we hear Susan Hofer sing Dan Barker's freethought love song, "It's Only Natural." Then, we speak with FFRF attorneys Sammi Lawrence and Chris Line about their watchdog letters of complaint to public officials who violate state/churc…
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#355 - Hey! Pack it in already!
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Atheist tell religion to pack it in for various reasons.
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This week, we call out governmental prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast and an egregious Christian nationalist invocation before the House of Representatives. Then we hear Kate Cohen, Washington Post contributing columnist and author of the book We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too), deliver her ente…
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#354 – The Moral of the Story
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Are Christians taking the wrong morals from Bible Stories? We believe they are. Atheists discuss why that is.
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FFRF Director of Communications Amit Pal describes how India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a Hindu temple on the site of a demolished mosque in a political effort to establish Hindu nationalism in that country. Then we speak with Devin Moss, the humanist chaplain who was called in to support an atheist death-row inmate executed in Okla…
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#353 - Snowflakes (the literal ones)
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God, himself, designs every single snowflake? Really?
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Margaret Downey, president of the Thomas Paine Memorial Association, tells us about an exciting celebration of the birth of the “Forgotten Founder" Thomas Paine on his Jan. 29 birthday. Then, FFRF Director of Communications Amit Pal speaks with the actor, theater director and artist-in-residence at UW-Madison Vamsi Matta, a Dalit (the most oppresse…
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#352 – Growing-Pains Asexuality and Fossils
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We talk about the Growing-Pains with growing out of religion. Ty's asexuality and finding fossils.
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After we hear from atheists Ron Reagan and Richard Dawkins, we listen to U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan greet attendees at FFRF's annual convention. Then we speak with author and essayist Sarah Stankorb about her new book, Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning…
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#351 - Turn it off and turn it back on again
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How the god of the Bible used to reboot mankind to fix them. Also, listener comments.
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#350 - Why dont we honor religious claims in court?
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Back before and during the Salem Witch Trials there was a form of evidence that was allowed called spectral evidence. And people were killed because of it. Spectral evidence is a form of evidence based upon dreams and visions, and it was based on the Christian belief system. Why don't we still do that?…
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