The Solstice Is the Reason

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Celebrating with music and readings, we explain why the Winter Solstice is the true "Reason for the Season."

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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
0:41.3	Imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today
0:59.5	This is the time, the time of year for gathering together We can brave the longest night
1:01.8	And all the wintry weather
1:03.8	Longest nights we fear you not
1:06.1	For we have kept a hard stone's hot
1:08.9	This is the time the time of year for gathering together.
1:17.8	Winter with its last, see, a stone is fell upon us. All the birds and he sells up, and
1:24.4	ice and so surround us us But tonight the balance ships
1:28.4	Back toward life and all its gifts
1:30.5	This is the time the time
1:32.2	Up here for gathering together
1:34.7	Ho!
1:37.1	Horse of darkness, horse of night
1:41.1	You shall over beat us
1:43.2	Rattle the window will steal the light
1:45.3	But you shall not defeat us
1:47.2	You wrestle us right to the ground
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