Reason's Greetings
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On this important date, we remind listeners of the real reason for the season: the Winter Solstice. After reporting on FFRF's Solstice and "Bill of Rights nativity" scenes erected on public property to counter religious displays, we hear from the justice correspondent for The Nation magazine, Elie Mystal, author of the book Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution.
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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. |
| 0:20.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:22.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:28.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Hello and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:59.1 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and greetings of the winter solstice, |
| 1:04.3 | the real reason for the season, and it officially occurs at 9.30 p.m. tonight. |
| 1:10.5 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:12.4 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:17.3 | And this is the December 21st, 2020, episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:24.2 | The very talented Tori Neels with Audio for the Arts is our engineer today in the Stephen O'Oll-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:34.5 | Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:41.1 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:46.5 | Regular listeners know we work to keep religion out of government and social policy to keep |
| 1:52.0 | religion in its place as a matter of personal conscience, but nothing to do with our laws. |
| 1:59.0 | And we have a big battle, and we have 40,000 members, but we would |
| 2:02.5 | love to have you join if you're not a member at ffherf.org. We also educate the public about the |
| 2:08.6 | views of those of us who are personally free from religion. In a few minutes, we're going to talk |
| 2:15.1 | more about the real reason for the season, which is the winter solstice. |
| 2:20.7 | And after that, Attorney Ali Mistel, I should say, author of Allow Me to Retort, A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution, |
| 2:31.2 | will tell us why religious preferentialism on the Supreme Court is breaking our |
| 2:35.9 | country. |
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