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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 Prethought Radio.

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

And I'm Amit Pahl, Communications Director at FFRF, filling in for Dan Barker, who's on the road. This is the January 22nd,

2006 episode of Freethought Radio. We are recording from the Stephen Yule friendly atheist

studio in Freethought Hall, which is our national headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin.

And January 22nd would have been and should have been the 53rd anniversary of Roe versus Wade.

So we're mourning that today.

Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which exists

to promote the separation between state and church that is constitutionally dictated,

and to act as an advocacy group, a membership group for those of us who are personally free from religion,

whether you call yourself an atheist or agnostic or just don't like labels.

We are an umbrella group that represents your views, which are the most

liberal of the U.S. public, which support science and reason. So we'd love to have you join us at

ffrf.org. Today we're going to talk with all the way from India, Goher Raza, a scientist, poet and social

activist about his latest book from myths to science, which, to borrow from the book's blurb,

is a powerful exploration of humanity's journey from inherited myths to rational thought, from blind

faith to scientific inquiry. Raza examines how societies construct myths, how superstition and

dogma take root, and why the cultivation of scientific temper, which we'll be talking with him

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