This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.

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

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, a third-generation freethinker, and I'm an out-of-the-closet atheist.

I guess you could also call me a poly-athist, an agnostic, a skeptic, irrationalist who believes in none of the above.

And this is Free Thought Radio.

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

You know, I used to be a preacher, evangelical minister.

So here's the question.

Does that make me a first-generation atheist when, in fact, my mom and dad later both became atheist. So if my mom and dad are

atheists, doesn't that make me technically a second generation? I vote for second generation,

and we have a third generation atheist daughter. Yeah, or fourth in your case. I mean fourth,

yes, fourth in my case. So even though my mom and dad raised me religious, we all saw the light,

and so did my brother Daryl.

And we rejected religious dogma and superstition.

Free Thought Radio, this show is produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

Andy Lorie and I co-direct the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

We're a 501C3 educational charity with two purposes.

We started in 1978 as a national group to educate the public about non-theism and to safeguard the constitutional wall of separation between state and church in the United States.

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