Solstice Tribute

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In the News: Saudi Arabia is scheduled to behead a nonbeliever; Indiana school thumbs its nose at the Constitution by staging a “mannequin” nativity scene after a judge enjoined them from doing a “live nativity scene.” We hear some Winter Solstice songs and a reading about how Christians coopted the season. Then we talk with Holly Baer, the first winner of the Yip Harburg Youth Activist award, who challenged a Christian display in the city of Collins, Mississippi.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:15.3	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:19.6	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:25.6	It's easy if you try.
0:31.6	No hell below us.
0:41.6	Above us only sky imagine all the people
0:47.8	living for today
0:53.9	Mary Winter Seltestus Welcome to Freethought Radio at this season of the winter solstice may reason prevail. Thank you for joining us on Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:06.5	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. This is the December 19th, 2015 edition of Free Thought Radio, which is being produced now at the Stephen Yule, Friendly Atheist Studio in the National Offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:26.5	This is our second show produced from this brand
1:29.3	new, really nice studio, and our engineer today, like last week, is Steve Gotcher from Audio
1:36.7	for the Arts. We first broadcast this show and stream on the Mike 92.1, which is called Progressive Talk here in Madison, Wisconsin, Saturdays at 11 a.m. Central.
1:49.0	We also broadcast in Vermont and New Hampshire on WOLFM, WPRR in Grand Rapids, KBOS in Texas, KOPN in Central Missouri, WRF, W-R-F-I in central New York State,
2:02.8	C-K-X-U, and Alberta, Canada, and in Janesville, Wisconsin, on Community Radio, W-A-D-R,
2:09.3	and on some internet stations, you might be hearing us on Radio Monterey.com.
2:14.7	The Freedom for Religion Foundation is the producer of Free Thought Radio. We also publish
2:21.0	Free Thought today, a newspaper. We have a staff working to keep religion and government
2:26.9	out of set, religion out of government, and to promote free thought, and we hope not someday,
2:32.2	but today you will join what is today the largest
2:35.2	association of Freethinkers in North America. We have over 23,000 members, and we'd love to be
2:40.3	way more than that with your help. And we are also broadcasting the show, and we heard
2:47.1	last week from a listener in Scotland who listens to this show. So hello, Europe.
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