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Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Happy Thanksgiving! Co-presidents Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker host a series of exciting 2020 reports from FFRF staff led by Legal Director Rebecca Markert and Director of Strategic Response Andrew Seidel. Actor Ed Asner accepts FFRF's "Clarence Darrow Award," activist Ben Hart accepts FFRF's "Freethinker of the Year" award . . . and more from a very busy staff!

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:19.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:21.6	It's easy if you try.
0:27.6	No hell below us
0:41.3	Above us only sky
0:47.3	Imagine all the people
1:27.2	living for today I imagine there's no country Hello and happy Thanksgiving, and that's, of course, a Thanksgiving song that has some free thought roots, the lyrics written by a freethinker in the 1800s. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is
1:29.6	Free Thought Radio, where we give thanks, where thanks is due. We thank the cook today.
1:36.5	And over the river and through the woods was written by Lydia Maria Child, who was a non-believer,
1:43.1	one of the earliest, I guess one of the earliest American
1:45.4	songwriters that we can talk about.
1:47.1	You're abolitionist, feminist, very, very interesting personality.
1:51.8	I'm Dan Barker, Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:57.4	This is the Thanksgiving, November 26th, 2020 edition of Free Thought Radio.
2:03.8	Annie Laurie and I are hosting, once again, from our Safe at Home studio in Madison, Wisconsin,
2:10.3	while Buzz Kemper is engineering the show again from his studio, Audio for the Arts,
2:17.0	which is down near the Wisconsin State Capitol.
2:19.3	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF.
2:24.3	That stands for the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and as our name indicates, we work to keep religion out of government.
2:33.3	In our membership of over 33,000 members in North America are personally free from religion.
2:40.5	Whether you call yourself an atheist or agnostic or skeptic, we all disbelieve in the same gods
2:47.2	and we all believe in secular government.
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