Heathen's Greetings!
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
After news about "ominous omicron," secular Solstice displays and a state/church victory, we celebrate the real reason for the season — the Winter Solstice — by hearing some fun irreverent Christmas songs by Tom Lehrer, Roy Zimmerman, Addison Frei, Tahira Clayton, Ken Lonnquist, and Susan Hofer, ending with 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, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.5 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:23.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:48.3 | Mary welcome. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and hello to everybody, you irreverent people listening to this show, Anna |
| 0:59.3 | Mary December. The days are getting longer, which is something worth celebrating, but of course |
| 1:06.0 | we also ominously have that Amacron variant spreading in America and around the world. |
| 1:12.7 | So sleeves up, time to do what President Biden properly calls your patriotic duty, |
| 1:19.4 | and get those vaccinations and your booster if you haven't already. |
| 1:24.6 | Dan, the biggest fight against COVID-19 is actually against ignorance in the anti-science backlash. |
| 1:33.4 | But science, if we trust in science, reason will prevail. |
| 1:38.1 | And I'm Dan Barker. I like how you said ominous amacron. |
| 1:43.1 | Well, maybe I don't like it, but in science we do trust. |
| 1:47.9 | This is the December 23rd, 2021 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:54.1 | And once again, Grant Blashka of Audio for the Arts is our engineer today. |
| 1:59.4 | He's producing the show in the Stephen Yule, |
| 2:02.7 | friendly atheist studio, which is in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from |
| 2:09.0 | Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom |
| 2:14.6 | from Religion Foundation, whose two purposes are to educate you, |
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