This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.

Imagine there's no heaven.

It's easy if you try.

No hell below us.

Above us only sky imagine all the people Living for today Welcome to the reality-based community.

I'm Annie Laurie Galore.

Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.

And I'm here, too, your friendly neighborhood atheist, Dan Barker.

I'm the author of the book, Losing Faith in Faith, From Preacher to Atheist.

Freethought Radio is the non-faith-based initiative of the non-profit Freedom from Religion Foundation.

We're a national association of atheists and agnostics working to defend the constitutional principle of the separation

between church and state. And by the way, you can spell that word non-profit either way.

Think about it. We are a non-profit organization. We have no gods, no masters, and no prophets.

If you're tuning in for the first time, if you question the claims of religion, if you're not sure, you should take faith on faith, as Mark Twain put it, faith is believe in what you know ain't so.

If you're concerned about the religion-drenched nature of politics today, the attempt by the religious right to seize control

of our government, then Free Thought Radio is for you. This is the first national weekly radio show

devoted to the views of the undevoted, the 30 million or more adult Americans who are not

religious. And those figures go way up for young Americans, by the way. I just did a tour in Texas

of college campuses where there are free thought groups, an exciting group of non-believers

all over the country. And one of them came up to me afterward and said, I listen to your radio

show all the time, but you're a lot thinner in person than you are on the radio. So I guess my voice sounds, what, heavy?

Heavy.

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