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

Happy secular New Year.

And hey, it's a nice, unblemished year so far with no new state church violations yet.

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome to Free Thought Radio.

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

This is New Year's Day.

This show is broadcasting on the weekend of January 1st and 2nd, 2011.

Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming from the progressive talk, the Mike 92.1, Madison, Wisconsin, airing also in several other cities across the nation,

and podcasting everywhere.

Freethought Radio is the weekly production of the National Freedom from Religion Foundation.

We are the nation's largest organization of atheists and agnostics. We started in 1978 as a national organization, and today we have grown to more than, it's more than 16,000, close to 17,000

if you count the subscribers and other supporters, more than 16,000 members nationwide. We work for two things.

The first thing we do is we work to keep state and church separate, and we do that through complaints, through legal activity, through lawsuits. And of course, you heard last year, April 15th of 2010, we won a federal lawsuit declaring the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional. And the second thing we do is we educate the public about the views of non-believers, atheists, and agnostics. And that's what Free Thought

Radio is all about. And what do we have in store today? Well, today we're going to do a different

kind of a show, more relaxed and a lot more fun for a New Year's Day show. We're going to

have a show that is Name That Secular Songwriter. And Dan, don't you have a joke for us on that topic?

Yeah, we, you know, in past shows, we did a show a couple years ago on classical composers.

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