Freethought Matters: Andrew Seidel

Andrew Seidel is Vice President of Strategic Communications for Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Before that, he was a constitutional attorney and strategic response director here at the Freedom from Religion Foundation. His first book, The Founding Myth - Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American, was published in 2019. Seidel's latest book is titled American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom.

[EddyNumberFive]

Thank you Andrew and FFRF for your service to the People.

[doneestoner]

I love💙 Andrew. I'm reading this fabulous book right now. These are scary times.

[Troubleshooter]

If _American Crusade_ is the kind of read that _The Founding Myth_ was, it'll be yet another hit for Mr. Seidel. I should say, too, that it was great to see him back with Annie Laurie and Dan again!

[JesusSkateboardsdotnet]

All of your important work is greatly appreciated, a million thank you s,
Cheers from San Diego

[danhilbert]

A million thanks to FFRF and Andrew Seildel. With them as our generals, we have an army that is determined to educate the public about freethinkers. Thanks also to Bill Dunn for his work in exposing the Black Collar Crime.

[roxydina]

Buying the book now. Grateful for this work.

[lostfan]

I love Andrew! He always does great work

[geneshifter]

What I hope is that these latest rulings giving christians the ability to freely discriminate will greatly accelerate people leaving religion behind. They are already losing members big time and these last gasps of power will hopefully be the end of them as a power group.

[osiris_blanche]

Really digging the style Andrew's hair! LOOKS REALLY REALLY REALLY good on him!

[JP-JustSayin]

Traditionally "liberty" has always come at someone's expense ... it's about who gets to oppress who ... "religious liberty" is no different.

[xmillion]

"Jesus take the wheel". Now if he can only figure out the pedals, you can just stretch out in the back seat.

[johnwohara]

In Thomas Paine's pamphlet, "The Rights of Man (1791)", he wrote on the mythology of "tolerance":

"Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but it is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the pope, armed with fire and fagot, and the other is the pope selling or granting indulgences."


(the point: Intolerance is saying "I have the right to tell you not to be a certain way", and tolerance is saying "I have the right to allow you to be a certain way".)

[jerryjones]

Divine given dominion is the doctrine fueling this movement.

[lelandmcc]

Has anyone figured out how to quickly find the topic of discussion? It may beneficial for viewers to see a title such as “How the Supreme Court is weaponizing religious freedom” to navigate the vast amount of topics that are in desperate need of discourse. Mahalo!

[anitareasontobelieve]

I'm a trained paralegal and mediator. I will help Andrew. I'm also not stage shy.

[jhill]

Even scarier, if possible, is that we don't know what flavor of Christianity will be the law. I guess that depends on who wins and is able to tell us what god means.

[NatuProg]

We’ve been watching the slow motion train wreck for a long time now. It seems like things have sped up suddenly.

[mindymild]

Why not defend the “jesus take the wheel” cases to put a spotlight on this insanity?

[tribequest]

The Colorado bakery case was not what Andrew or the media would have you believe what it was said to be. The baker never said they wouldn’t bake them a cake, they said they wouldn’t bake the cake that the gay couple who drive miles and miles passing quite a few other bakeries wanted them to bake. It was never about discrimination but does a business have a right to dictate their own types of service……..it’s why the baker won his case. If you are going to represent truth and fairness then represent it fully. It’s bad enough that so many atheist have become no different than their religious counterparts, we need to do better and better them.

[gillmeister]

♫ "Jesus is on the main line, tell him what you want". ♫