This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, 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 Happy December, everybody.

And no, there isn't a war on Christmas, but we're happy to... How did you put it, Brian, last year?

I think I said lob a few snowballs.

Yes.

Lob a few snowballs at the mingling of religion and government at this time of year.

I'm Annie Laurie Giller, and this is Free Thought Radio.

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

But as little kids, we used to lob those snowballs pretty hard.

So maybe this is a little mini-war on Christmas, but this show, Free Thought Radio,

is broadcasting over many Air America stations,

and in addition to being broadcast, it's also streaming overairamerica.com.

Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

It started off, which is three of us back in 1976 when I was very young.

The mother, the father, and the Holy Ghost? No. A mother, daughter, and a friend from Milwaukee.

And now we're 14,000 and growing. And we work for separation of church and state, and our members

are personally free from religion, atheists, agnostics, free thinkers,

skeptics, and so on.

And maybe with the news this week about the escalation in Afghanistan, this isn't a good

week for a joke, but our response to the big news announcement is maybe a good response

to be a one-liner from Yip Harburg, the lyricist

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