Let's All Give Thanks

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We are thankful for the many speakers and performers at FFRF's 48th annual convention. We listen to 20 clips from that entertaining and enlightening event.

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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.
0:19.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:21.6	It's easy if you try.
0:27.6	No hell below us
0:41.3	Above us only sky
0:47.3	Imagine all the people
1:13.2	living for today. Happy Thanksgiving. I'm Annie Laurie Galar.
1:20.2	And I'm Dan Barker, co-president with Annie Laurie of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:28.6	And on this Thanksgiving 2025, I'm thankful to you for listening to this show.
1:33.8	We're recording in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall,
1:37.0	our national headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:39.6	What do you think for, Annie, Lori?
1:43.9	Well, I am thankful that we still have a First Amendment, and at least on paper, a separation between religion and government.
1:49.6	Well, I'm also thankful that I won't have to listen to any of these long prayers before I eat Thanksgiving dinner.
1:57.7	Have you ever noticed that these people who pray, they forget to give thanks where thanks
2:02.6	is really due to the cook.
2:04.6	Often the woman.
2:06.6	And yes, Anne Royal, who was considered the first canvasser for stature separation,
2:12.6	said way back in 1820, good works, not long prayers. So, pippa para for that. And Prethought Radio, by the way,
2:22.9	is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, emphasis on from. We have two
2:29.1	purposes to keep religion out of government, as our constitution Constitution requires and to serve as a national
2:36.0	clearinghouse for those of us who are personally free from religion. And I am very thankful
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