Welcome to Ask an Atheist.

I'm Annie Laurie Galore, President-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,

and this is the debut of our new interactive program, Ask an Atheist, where you can participate, whether you're a believer.

Or whether you're a non-believer, whatever you call yourself, an unabashed atheist maybe,

or an indifferent agnostic.

I'm Dan Barker.

I'm co-president of FFRF.

I'm a former evangelical minister who just lost faith in faith.

In other words, I saw the light, and now I'm a born-again atheist.

And I'm Andrew Seidel, also an atheist, and a constitutional attorney with the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

And in every weekly program, and you can look for us at the same time, same place,

staff from the Freedom from Religion Foundation will tackle a controversial, thought-provoking, or topical subject.

Usually having to do with free thought and non-belief, the rejection of religion.

On future shows, we'll talk with other issues like,

how can you be good without God, or maybe how can you have purpose in life without God,

or happiness, or the Bible, or some of the apologetic arguments like evidence and so on

may be the problem of evil.

And Ask an Atheist will also deal with the common myths about America being a Christian nation

or about some of the controversies surrounding the separation of state and church,

something that we know an awful lot about here at FFRF.

After we make our case, then we're going to open it up to you.

You can send us some comments or short questions and have a little dialogue.

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