Give thanks . . . where it is due.

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Our Thanksgiving 2023 show features Godless Gospel performing "Let's All Give Thanks," interviews FFRF Counsel Sam Grover on FFRF's new brief against religious censorship of drag shows, and features law Professor Mary Ziegler warning about the anti-abortion movement's goal of fetal personhood.

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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.
0:20.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:22.6	It's easy if you try.
0:32.6	No hell below us Above us
0:39.3	Above us only sky
0:42.3	Imagine all the people
0:48.3	living for today. Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and that, of course, was over the river and through the woods,
1:20.7	a song often sung on Thanksgiving as people travel to meet with family and friends.
1:26.3	And by the way, there is a free thought connection.
1:28.9	The lyricist of that song was Lydia Maria Child, the early 19th century free-thinking author,
1:36.3	poet, abolitionist, and activist for Native American and women's rights. And that was played
1:43.6	by my co-host, Dan Barker, and Dan is not here
1:46.2	today because he's at Oxford University with our friend, the sociologist Phil Zuckerman, and they
1:53.8	are doing a team debate for the Oxford Student Union against a Catholic cardinal and a Hindu author on the question,
2:04.2	Is God a delusion? And by the way, his special guest at the Oxford Banquet and debate,
2:10.3	appropriately, will be Richard Dawkins, who of course wrote The God Delusion.
2:16.1	Dan and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
2:19.7	and this is the November 23rd, 23rd, 23rd, episode of Free Thought Radio.
2:25.9	Tori Niels with Audio for the Arts is our kind engineer in the Stephen Ull, friendly atheist
2:32.4	studio in Freethought Hall,
2:39.2	the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
2:44.2	Regular listeners to the show know that Freethought Radio is a weekly production.
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