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 above us only sky.

Imagine all the people living for today.

Hello, are you hell-raising heathens who don't even believe in hell?

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.

And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood,

atheist of the airwaves. No hell below us, above us only sky. This is the September 24th,

2011 broadcast of Free Thought Radio, rational radio, and blasphemous broadcasting for the rest of us.

This show broadcasts from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin, and Free Thought Radio streams

from this station and podcasts the following week and is also broadcasting in Atlanta, in Grand Rapids, in Monterey, and in New York City.

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

the original co-founders back in 1976. This is dating me. In third grade, wasn't it? With my mother

and Galar, and then we had a third gentleman, John Sontak from Milwaukee, join us.

And in 1978, she was asked to go national.

My mother was asked to go national with the group and did.

And we've gone from the original three to over 17,000 members and from all volunteer staff to over 11 full-time and interns,

and we're very crowded at our Free Thought Hall in Madison, Wisconsin.

And we hope someday you will join us.

And we have two purposes to educate the public about non-theism

and to keep religion out of government,

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