Give Thanks Where Thanks is Due

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Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

What are the real origins of Thanksgiving? Stand-up comedian Leighann Lord shares with us her hilarious "Six Things to Argue About at Thanksgiving Other Than Politics." Then Eva Quiñones, president of Humanistas Seculares de Puerto Rico, on the phone from Puerto Rico, tells us what it has been like since Hurricanes Irma and Maria battered the island, how atheists and humanists are delivering food, water, and emergency supplies to victims, and what freethinkers are doing there to keep state and church separate.

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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.
0:13.5	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:20.0	It's easy if you try
0:22.6	No hell below us
0:33.6	Above us only sky
0:36.6	Imagine all the people
0:40.3	Living for today
0:45.3	Imagine there's no country.
0:56.5	It's more. Happy Thanksgiving. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. And I'm Dan Barker.
1:20.0	And we came in with a little of that music recorded by my talented co-host from the traditional
1:26.5	Thanksgiving song
1:27.5	Over the River and Through the Woods.
1:29.8	And if you're wondering why, it's because the lyrics were written by 19th century free thinker,
1:36.2	Lydia Maria Child, considered the first woman of letters in the United States.
1:41.7	And we'll talk a little more about her later in the show.
1:44.3	And this is our Thanksgiving show. This is the November 23rd, 2017 edition of Free Thought Radio.
1:51.3	Our engineer is Buzz Kemper, producing the show in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio
1:58.3	in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion
2:03.4	Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
2:06.2	And the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which produces this weekly show, has two purposes.
2:11.6	To keep religion out of government, which is terribly important in this day, and to educate the public about non-theism.
2:19.6	And we are the nation's largest association of free thinkers, atheist agnostics, in North America with over 30,000 members, and we hope not someday.
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