A movie and TV star who has made a remarkable journey from an ultrareligious upbringing to an outspoken freethinker is the guest on the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s Sunday TV show.
Alice Greczyn has appeared in many movies and TV series, including “The Dukes of Hazzard,” “Lincoln Heights,” “The Lying Game,” “The Young And The Restless,” “Sex Drive,” “Fat Albert” and “Shroom.” After her traumatic experience of escaping religion, Greczyn started the group Dare To Doubt, a resource for people who are leaving harmful belief systems.
“I broke it off with a guy that I was betrothed to, and it was the scariest thing I’d ever done because having been raised to view life through the lens of spiritual warfare, I believed that deviating from what appeared to be God’s plan meant that I was giving Satan and his army a victory,” she discloses to “Freethought Matters” co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. “And it was the first time I’d ever deliberately gone against what appeared to be, what I believed was, God’s plan. And so I felt like when I ended my betrothal, I was essentially just telling Satan: Come get me.”
If you don’t live in the quarter-plus of the nation where the show broadcasts on Sunday, you can already catch the interview on FFRF’s YouTube channel. You can also receive notifications when we post new episodes of Freethought Matters by subscribing to FFRF's YouTube channel.
This is the fall/spring season’s 35th episode of “Freethought Matters,” airing in over a dozen cities on Sunday, April 25.
Coming shows include interviews with Debbie and Dan Weisman, whose Supreme Court case halted graduation prayers, feminist legend Robin Morgan and Megan Phelps-Roper, author of the memoir Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church.
“Freethought Matters” airs in:
- Chicago, WPWR-CW (Ch. 50), Sundays at 9 a.m.
- Denver, KWGN-CW (Ch. 2), Sundays at 7 a.m.
- Houston, KUBE-IND (Ch. 57), Sundays at 9 a.m.
- Los Angeles, KCOP-MY (Ch. 13), Sundays at 8:30 a.m.
- Madison, Wis., WISC-TV (Ch. 3), Sundays at 11 p.m.
- Minneapolis, KSTC-IND (Ch. 45), Sundays at 9:30 a.m.
- New York City, WPIX-IND (Ch. 11), Sundays at 8:30 a.m.
- Phoenix, KASW-CW (Ch. 61, or 6 or 1006 for HD), Sundays at 8:30 a.m.
- Portland, Ore., KRCW-CW (Ch. 32), Sundays at 9 a.m. Comcast channel 703 for High Def, or Channel 3.
- Sacramento, KQCA-MY (Ch. 58), Sundays at 8:30 a.m.
- San Francisco, KICU-IND (Ch. 36), Sundays at 10 a.m.
- Seattle, KONG-IND (Ch. 16 or Ch. 106 on Comcast). Sundays at 8 a.m.
- Washington, D.C., WDCW-CW (Ch. 50 or Ch. 23 or Ch. 3), Sundays at 8 a.m.
Previous guests from the fall season include: pundit Eleanor Clift, whose interview you can watch here, actor and FFRF After-Life Member John de Lancie of “Star Trek” “Q” fame, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Linda Greenhouse, the country’s leading analyst of the U.S. Supreme Court, and legislative stalwart and feminist and civil rights pioneer U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton. One of the most eminent public intellectuals in the world, Professor Steven Pinker, was interviewed a few episodes ago talking about his new course on rationality. Legendary TV host, actor and singer John Davidson was the guest in early December. Recently, the show featured Ann Druyan, the co-creator of “Cosmos,” possibly the most acclaimed TV series of all time. A.C. Grayling, a prominent British philosopher and the author of about 30 books, grappled on the show with philosophy and the pandemic, and discussed how he himself dealt as a nonbeliever with a personal tragedy. Some weeks ago, the interview was with Rep. Jerry McNerney, a co-founder of the Congressional Freethought Caucus.
Watch previous seasons here, including interviews with Ron Reagan, Julia Sweeney and Ed Asner, as well as U.S. Reps. Jared Huffman and Jamie Raskin, co-chairs of the Congressional Freethought Caucus.
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