Promise of Dawn
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Barack and Michelle Obama's White House Christmas message acknowledges "nonbelievers" as well as Christians, Jews, and Muslims. We talk with Florida activist Preston Smith, a middle-school teacher who bravely erected FFRF's secular displays in a Boca Raton park to counter the Christian nativity scene. His displays were repeatedly vandalized and destroyed. Then we welcome the New Year with some hopeful music, including Shirley Horn's "Everything Must Change," Yip Harburg's "Over the Rainbow," Dan Barker's "Promise of Dawn," and freethinker Robert Burns's "Auld Lang Syne" performed by Scottish singer Mairi Campbell.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:17.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:41.3 | living for today |
| 0:52.3 | We wish you and your family a happy and healthy 2017. |
| 0:57.1 | Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Gallard, and that of course was Michelle Obama. |
| 1:01.4 | And as she said, we indeed wish you and your family a happy, healthy, and hopeful 2017. |
| 1:09.7 | This is Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:11.0 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:12.1 | This is the December 29th, 2016 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:17.3 | Our last show of the year. |
| 1:20.2 | Buzz Kemper is our engineer today, producing this show in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethad Hall, which are the national offices of the |
| 1:30.5 | Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:34.5 | You just heard Michelle Obama wishing us a happy 2017, and that was part of the Christmas message |
| 1:42.6 | from the White House that Michelle and Barack delivered just last |
| 1:47.3 | week. And listen to a little bit of that. And notice who Barack Obama includes in his list |
| 1:54.7 | of values Americans. The idea that we are our brothers keeper keeper and our sister's keeper, that we should treat others |
| 2:04.7 | as we would want to be treated, that we care for the sick, feed the hungry, welcome |
| 2:10.9 | the stranger, no matter where they come from or how they practice their faith. |
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