Are clergy “essential” workers? FFRF is complaining about favoritism to religion during the coronavirus pandemic. Our comfort music this week is “Smile,” written by the freethinking Charlie Chaplin. FFRF Director of Communications Amit Pal joins us as we talk by phone from locked-down India with Avinash Patil, the courageous executive president of the Organization to Eradicate Superstition in Maharashtra, India, whose founding president Narendra Dabholkar was murdered by religious fanatics.

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