Give Thanks Where Thanks is Due

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🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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We have a victory to report in Colorado and a victory to defend in Florida. After hearing 19th-century Robert G. Ingersoll's 1897 "Thanksgiving Sermon," the 21st-century comedian Leighann Lord gives us "Six things to argue about at Thanksgiving other than politics." Then we talk with the first winner of FFRF's new "Avijit Roy Courage Award," Rasel Ahmed, co-editor of Bangladesh's first and only LGBTQ magazine who had to leave the country to seek asylum in the United States because of threats to his life.

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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.
0:14.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:18.0	It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people
0:41.3	Living for today Hooray for the pumpkin pie. Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and happy Thanksgiving to all you
1:12.9	seculars who have better manners than to thank a supernatural being for a feast that's created
1:20.7	by hardworking real people. So happy Thanksgiving and I should point out that that little
1:27.2	diddy that you just heard that Dan was playing over the river, a cute arrangement, that famous song, the words to that song are by a freethinker from the 19th century, an early abolitionist feminist, Lydia Maria Child.
1:44.8	And I'm Dan Barker. This is the November 22nd, Thanksgiving, 2018 edition of Freethought Radio.
1:52.1	Buzz Kemper is our engineer producing the show in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall,
1:57.8	the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison,
2:02.0	Wisconsin. And FFRF, as regular listeners know, is a national association, really a North
2:09.2	American association of free thinkers, atheists, and agnostics, and we work very dedicatedly
2:14.8	to keep religion out of government, and that is a lot of work.
2:20.1	Our hands are full.
2:21.2	If you're a member, thank you.
2:23.0	If you're not, we'd love to have you join us today at ffhrf.org or ask for a sample of our newspaper,
2:29.9	Free Thought Today, and get better acquainted with us.
2:33.8	Today, we're going to talk with the winner of the first Avijit Roy Courage Award.
2:40.1	Rosal Ahmed is the Bangladeshi LGBTQ magazine, Rubin editor.
2:48.2	And Avigit Roy was, of course, the Bangladeshi American atheist and author and
2:56.6	scientist who was macheted to death on the streets of Dhaka in 2015 when he and his wife
3:04.9	returned to Bangladesh from Atlanta to attend the famous book fairs there in Bangladesh
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