Guest: Ayanna Watson, Founder, Black Atheists in America

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2011

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

If congress can make no law respecting the establishment of religion, then why has the US congress set a side the first Thursday in May as the National Day of Prayer. Ayanna Watson discusses bridging the gap between atheism and the black community.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:14.8	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:18.8	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:21.6	It's easy if you try.
0:31.6	No hell below us, above us only sky
0:41.3	imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today
0:53.3	a special hello to all the mothers who might be listening,
1:00.5	including my own and Nicole Gaylor,
1:03.6	President Emerita of the Freedom from Religion Foundation
1:07.3	on this Mother's Day weekend.
1:09.8	I'm a mother too.
1:12.5	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is Free Thought Radio. And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves.
1:18.7	And no, not Mother Teresa, not the mother of God. They're not listening. We're saluting real mothers
1:24.6	in the real world. And I also want to say,
1:28.5	Hasa Diga Iboewe.
1:30.7	If you listen to one of our earlier shows,
1:32.4	you know what that means.
1:34.1	Hasa Diga Iboewe.
1:35.3	By the way,
1:35.9	congratulations to the Book of Mormon.
1:39.4	That's the Broadway musical
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