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Freethought Radio

Guest: Author Barbara G. Walker

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Topic: The Winter Solstice - The Reason for the Season
Dan and Annie Laurie will announce various Winter Solstice initiatives of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, air news clips about FFRF Winter Solstice Displays at State Capitols and its new "Reason's Greetings" billboards (including Bill O'Reilly ranting against them), and play a little tongue in cheek seasonal music. They will also interview scholar and author Barbara G. Walker, about the real meaning of the season and everything they didn't teach you about the origins of "Christmas" in Sunday School! Walker is Freethought Today's columnist and author of the monumental Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets

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0:00.0

This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.

0:20.0

Imagine there's no heaven.

0:26.2

It's easy if you try.

0:32.0

No hell below us.

0:41.3

Above us only sky. Oh, come all you fit. living for today.

0:58.7

Oh, come all you faithless.

1:00.9

Happy December, Infidels and Heathens.

1:02.4

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.

1:05.9

And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves.

1:13.9

And welcome to Freethought Radio, the only national radio program devoted to the views of non-believers, atheists, and agnostics.

1:17.6

Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.

1:22.4

And this show is produced by the National Freedom from Religion Foundation. We're the largest association in the United States of atheists and agnostics, almost 13,000 members.

1:29.9

People who don't believe in a God, for whatever reason and whatever we call ourselves,

1:34.6

we think it's important to work to keep state and church separate and also to be an alternative voice,

1:40.7

to educate the public about the views of us who are none of the above.

1:45.0

And it's just the first week of December, but you'd think all hell was breaking out.

1:48.5

And if you had the misfortune to listen to Fox News lately, it's really just us free thinkers and nothing to worry about.

1:54.6

We're not declaring a war on Christmas, contrary to what Bill O'Reilly has said.

2:04.1

But as our producer, Brian Turrani said last year, we would like to lob a few snowballs at it, maybe once in a while.

2:09.0

The National Freedom for Religion Foundation has placed two winter solstice displays at state capitals.

2:13.9

One is out of Madison, Wisconsin, where we're broadcasting from at the Wisconsin

2:18.9

State Capitol, and that's marking our 13th year in a row there. It's a tourist attraction, we're told,

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