Happy Winter Solstice
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
FFRF's Winter Solstice signs have been erected around the country, one of which was vandalized in Olympia, Washington. Our full-page New York Times ad ran today, during a time when more Americans consider "Christmas" to be a purely secular holiday. After FFRF Legal Fellow Colin McNamara tells us about religious instruction in Wisconsin prisons, we listen to a number of irreverent and moving songs about the Winter Solstice, including Tom Lehrer's "Christmas Carol," "Blah Blah Bethlehem," Ken Lohnquist's "Isthmus Tree," "Merry Frickin Christmas," and Tim Minchin's "White Wine in the Sun."
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.3 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.3 | 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 Above us only sky. |
| 0:39.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.3 | We're saying Merry Christmas again |
| 0:54.8 | Well at the Freedom from Religion Foundation |
| 1:00.1 | we are still saying Merry Winter Solstice |
| 1:04.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Galler, welcome to Free Thought Radio |
| 1:06.6 | and we'll be talking more about the solstice Christmas |
| 1:10.1 | clash on today's show. |
| 1:12.6 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:14.4 | Today is the date of the actual winter solstice, the actual natural new year. |
| 1:19.9 | Today is the December 21st, 2017 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:25.5 | Our engineer is Buzz Kemper. |
| 1:27.1 | The show is being produced in the Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Radio. Our engineers, Buzz Kemper, the show is being produced in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:32.1 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:37.2 | And our show is produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
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