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

Things, oh, godless ones, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.

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

Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming from Air America.

This show is produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

If you're concerned about keeping state and church separate,

and if you're concerned about the incursions into our government and into society by the religious right,

then you will want to join our group.

We're the largest national organization of atheists and agnostics working to keep state and church separate and to educate the

public about the views of non-believers. Our guest later in the show today will be Eric

Maisel. He's the author of the book called The Atheist's Way, Living Well Without Gods.

But speaking of gods in government, we want to spend the first half of

Free Thought Radio dissecting the decision by the new administration to retain a faith-based

office in the White House and at the cabinets, just renaming it from the office of faith-based

and community initiatives to the White House Council of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives to the White House Council of Faith-Based

and Neighborhood Partnerships.

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