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.

Good works, not long prayers.

That's our motto for this week.

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.

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

Beat That Radio is your weekly antidote to the religious right.

We're broadcasting over Air America Radio and streaming overair America.com. And Annie, Lori and I are co-presidents of the National Freedom from

Religion Foundation. Free Thought Radio is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, an

organization that works to keep state and church separate.

And we'll talk about some of our legal activities later in today's show and to educate the public about the views of nonbelievers. And we'll speak with a distinguished nonbelie

later in today's show. Yes, we have an atheist guest. Our upcoming guest is Brent Michael

Davids, and he's also a Stockbridge Muncie, American Indian. It's the

band of the Mohican Nation. He's an atheist, as Dan said, and a professional concert and film composer.

He has had many awards. He writes symphonies. He writes scores for documentaries. He works with

young native musicians and uses a lot of native musical instruments and even invents his own.

And we'll talk with Brent on the second half of Free Thought Radio today.

We'd like to devote the first half of today's show to news,

and in particular about the upcoming National Day of Prayer,

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