Away with the manger!
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2011
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Away with the manger and in with the solstice. Is there room at the inn for freethought displays? Tune in to hear about FFRF's first-ever 'natural nativity scene.' We wish you a happy solstice and a very merry new year!
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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, above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today Mary Winter Solstice, the real reason for the season, and we think reason is always in season. |
| 1:02.2 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and welcome to Free Thought Radio, Radio for the irreverent rest of us. |
| 1:07.7 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:12.6 | This is the weekend of December 17th and 18th, 2011. And the winter solstice is this week. Is it on the 22nd? |
| 1:18.6 | Yep, on Thursday. The actual winter solstice. It's a little late this year. The shortest day of the |
| 1:23.2 | year, the shortest day of the year, the darkest day of the year. Which is the beginning of the new |
| 1:27.1 | astronomical year, actually. So, Merry Winter Solstice. Free Thought Radio broadcasts and streams |
| 1:33.1 | from the Mike 92.1. We're also broadcasting in Atlanta, Grand Rapids, Monterey, New York City, |
| 1:39.8 | and of course, we're a podcast. If you have a progressive station in your city, ask them to carry Freethought Radio. |
| 1:47.4 | We make it easy. |
| 1:48.3 | Just contact us at info at ffrf.org. |
| 1:53.2 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:57.2 | You know who we are. |
| 1:58.2 | We're the nation's largest association of atheists and agnostics, |
| 2:01.5 | and we work to keep religion out of government, and that is a full-time job for at least six of our |
| 2:06.3 | staff, Dan and myself and our four attorneys at the Freedom for Religion Foundation this time of year. |
| 2:12.2 | Now, we want to devote most of the entire program to not only the winter solstice, our natural holiday, but to all the |
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