The other night late on television there was a brief ad with President Reagan's son touting the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FRF), the "nation's largest, most effective association of atheists and agnostics," it boasts.
"I'm Ron Reagan, unabashed atheist," he explained. "And I'm alarmed by the intrusion by religion into our secular government." He urged keeping church and state separate "just as the Founding Fathers intended." Then he signed off as a "lifelong atheist. Not afraid of burning in hell."
Ten years ago Reagan Jr. got the annual "Emperor Has No Clothes Award" award from FRF and explained his life journey away from his parents' Christianity, which apparently wasn't fully lifelong but began in later childhood. He didn't like spending much of every Sunday driving a half hour each way to two-hour worship services at Bel Air Presbyterian Church.
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