Making Activism Fun
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
FFRF Co-President Dan Barker discusses his recent debate at Oxford University on the topic "Is God a Delusion?" Then we have some fun hearing comedian, activist and political satirist Lizz Winstead, co-founder of "The Daily Show" and founder of Abortion Access Front, tell us how "to bring joy and fun to expose hypocrisy and to have hope."
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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. |
| 0:19.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:58.1 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:01.7 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and happy December. |
| 1:06.5 | We're now in the thick of that so-called war on Christmas. |
| 1:08.9 | Yeah, and I've got my helmet on. |
| 1:10.5 | I've got my battering ram. |
| 1:14.7 | I've got my shield. I'm ready to do battle against the Christmas. |
| 1:16.5 | Of course, we're just joking here. |
| 1:22.5 | The real battle is being waged by those who want to force religion on everyone else in this country. |
| 1:29.5 | My name is Dan Barker and Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:35.2 | This is the December 7th, 2023 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:41.2 | And in the engineering room, Tori Neals is engineering this show. |
| 1:44.8 | She's with the recording studio Audio for the Arts in Madison, |
| 1:52.3 | Wisconsin. And she's right now in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio here in Freethought Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:59.6 | So speaking of the war on Christmas, although we're making fun of it, we do say that we like to lob a few soft snowballs at it. |
| 2:08.6 | And we'll be doing that throughout the month of December. |
| 2:11.6 | Freedom from Religion Foundation is the producer of our weekly radio program. |
| 2:18.6 | And the Freedom from Religion Foundation works to keep religion out of government, and that |
| 2:22.2 | is very hard in December, and very hard with Christian nationalists all around us. |
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