Happy Un-Holy-Days!
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Tis the season for FFRF's winter solstice and Bill of Rights displays to appear in state capitols and other locations around the country, some of which have been defaced and destroyed. We celebrate the secular solstice by hearing Tom Lehrer's irreverent "A Christmas Carol," Ken Lonnquist's "Isthmus Tree," and the hilarious South Park classic "Merry Frickin Christmas" performed by Dan Barker. Then we listen to the very moving speech by former Christian pastor Carter Warden who came out publicly as an atheist at FFRF's annual convention in Pittsburgh.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:10.0 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:17.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:23.6 | No hell below us above us only sky imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:51.3 | Reasons greetings and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and a merry winter solstice season to you. |
| 1:00.9 | Reason's greetings and Heathen's greetings too. |
| 1:04.6 | I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:05.7 | This is the December 22nd, 2016 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:16.1 | Since yesterday was the winter solstice up here in the cold northern hemisphere, today is actually the first day of the astronomical new year. And I can |
| 1:24.2 | already feel the day's lengthening. I don't know about you, but I'm ready for them to get longer. |
| 1:28.9 | Steve Gotcher is our engineer today, as he usually is. |
| 1:33.4 | He's producing this show in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:39.7 | which are the national offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:46.3 | So happy astronomical New Year as well. And if you ate as much as we did during our winter |
| 1:52.4 | solstice party here at Freethought Hall yesterday for our local membership in the area, also wishing |
| 1:59.1 | you a happy gastronomical new year. |
| 2:01.9 | Astronomical, gastronomical. |
| 2:04.2 | So Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 2:09.5 | which has been going strong since 1978 as a national group and has reached over 25,000 members, but, you know, every day, Dan, |
| 2:22.6 | our computer ruthlessly drops people who fail to renew. So we need a buffer there. |
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