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Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Religion on the Line 2011 with Dennis Prager and Hugh Hewitt.

Religion on the Line is an interfaith dialogue that is put on by 99.5 FM KKLA and our sister station 870 AM KRLA here in Los Angeles. I'm Frank Pastori and I'm host of the Frank Pastore Show, heard weekday afternoons here in Los Angeles on 99.5 FM. It is the intersection

of faith and reason and as a former atheist for 27 years, I came to faith while pitching for the Cincinnati Reds way back in 1984.

And today, after a journey that has taken me through two master's degrees and a long wandering course,

I now find myself and God has placed me to have the privilege of hosting the most listened to Christian talk show in America, again,

here in Los Angeles weekday afternoons. I hope you'll give a listen. I wish I could be there tonight.

I remember doing the Dennis Prager event. He and I did the religion on the line last year,

and it was a sellout crowd, and I'm sure it's a sellout crowd there this

evening. And Dennis and I had a wonderful conversation about not only the differences, but also the

similarities between Christianity and Judaism. And I'm sure that Dennis and Hugh will do a marvelous

job there this evening. Now, I wish that I could be there, but I can't. I'm actually in Nashville receiving the prestigious

2011 National Religious Broadcasters Talk Show of the Year award again, and this is for

our second time. But of course, Dennis and Hugh are not winning such an award, and so they can be

there with you this evening.

Now, before I go to introduce my friend Hugh Hewitt, there are some sponsors who want to

thank who have made this evening possible. Roger Stewart Close, the Masters College, Phil

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