Happy Secular New Year!
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We report on FFRF state/church victories and complaints and honor the 2023 "Secularist of the Year." After welcoming the New Year by hearing the sparkling performance of Godless Gospel, we speak with FFRF contributing writer Barbara Alvarez about the current state of abortion rights and the challenges we will face in 2024 as Christian nationalists continue to restrict women's healthcare.
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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 Should all the acquaintance be forgot? |
| 1:04.0 | And never brought to mind |
| 1:09.0 | Should all the acquaintance be forgot |
| 1:15.6 | For old land sign |
| 1:19.6 | For old langsine, majean |
| 1:26.6 | For old long sign. |
| 1:30.3 | Will talk a cup, oh kindness yet, for old longsign. |
| 1:43.3 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and happy early New Year. |
| 1:49.2 | That was the Scottish singer Mary Campbell, helping us gently end 2023 with Old Lying Zine. |
| 1:58.3 | And this is Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:59.7 | And I'm Dan Barker. Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the |
| 2:03.5 | Freedom from Religion Foundation. And this is the last show of the year, December 28th, |
| 2:10.1 | 2023. Tori Neals with Audio for the Arts is our engineer. She's in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 2:20.0 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 2:24.8 | Yes, and we're in that studio, too. But she's in the engineering room. And Free Thought Radio is the |
| 2:31.1 | weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
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