The Trouble With Christmas

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

FFRF's Reproductive Rights Intern Barbara Alvarez tells us why abortion is a state/church issue that should concern all freethinkers. We remember Tom Flynn of the Council for Secular Humanism, who died this year, by hearing the 2006 interview he did for us about his book The Trouble With Christmas. Then we listen to Winter Solstice songs by Dan Barker and Kristin Lems.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:13.5	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:20.1	It's easy if you try
0:23.6	No hell below us
0:33.6	above us only sky.
0:48.3	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:58.1	Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and remember, there are only five more shopping days until the winter solstice.
1:04.7	The winter solstice on December 21st. The real reason for the season. I'm Dan Barker,
1:11.4	and this is the December 16th, 2021 edition of Freeth Art Radio. Grant Blashka of Audio for the Arts is our engineer here in the Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall,
1:19.6	the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:24.8	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion
1:28.4	Foundation, which has two purposes to educate the public. That's you about non-theism, atheists, agnostic
1:36.1	skeptics, and to work as a state church watchdog to keep religion out of government as our secular
1:42.9	constitution and bill of rights
1:45.2	require. And if you are a member, thank you. If you're not, we would love to send you
1:49.7	information, including a complementary issue of the December issue of our newspaper, Free Thought
1:56.1	today, which is chock full of interesting information. You can ask for information or join at ffrf.org.
2:03.5	In the second half of today's show,
2:05.6	we will remember Tom Flynn of the Council for Secular Humanism,
2:11.8	who died this year.
2:13.7	We are going to replay a light and fun interview we did with Tom in 2006 about his book, The Trouble with Christmas.
2:23.7	And also joining us in the second segment for the last time as our FFRF and Gaylor reproductive rights intern will be Barbara Alvarez.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Freedom From Religion Foundation, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Freedom From Religion Foundation and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.