Winter Solstice 2020
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
FFRF attorney Liz Cavell describes FFRF's alarming new report: "Religious Liberty Under Threat: The Christian Nationalist Capture of the Federal Judiciary." After hearing Kristin Lems' seasonal song "Solstice Time" and Dan Barker's ballad "Solstice Tribute," Michigan activist Doug Marshall tells us about the equal-time "Keep Saturn in Saturnalia" banner in Warren, Michigan, that was vandalized and stolen.
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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. |
| 0:19.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:23.6 | 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 |
| 0:56.0 | Mary winter solstice season and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm hoping you will have a sunny solstice in a cozy longest night of the year or have had, depending on when you're listening to this. |
| 1:09.0 | And we'll all soon enjoy the lengthening of the days, |
| 1:13.5 | which is the real reason for the season and the celebration. And I'm Dan Barker. This is the |
| 1:19.8 | December 17th, 2020 edition of Free Thought Radio. And since Monday, December 21st, is the solststice this is our winter solstice show we |
| 1:30.7 | could also call it our great convergence show because that's the day when Jupiter and |
| 1:35.1 | Saturn will appear closest together in the night sky just coincidentally it's on |
| 1:40.0 | December 21st and and that that's the closest they will appear together for centuries |
| 1:44.9 | for many centuries that's right Annie Laurie and I are hosting the show from our |
| 1:49.5 | safe at home studio in Madison Wisconsin while Noah Gilfillon is engineering |
| 1:55.0 | from the recording studio audio for the arts down near the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| 2:01.6 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 2:06.6 | and we're a national association of Freethinkers, atheists, agnostic, skeptics, secularists, people whoE-S, who have no religion, and we work diligently to keep religion out of government, |
| 2:22.9 | just like our founders intended. And you can join us at f-frf.org. It would be great to have you |
| 2:29.9 | join by the end of the year to swell our ranks. We're 33,000 plus. We should be much larger. |
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