HILLARY RHODES visits a foundation dedicated to taking religion out of politics in this week's asap's religion video.
MADISON, Wis.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has a twofold mission: provide a forum for agnostics and atheists, and heartily argue for the separation between church and state.
"Our government has to be neutral so that we -- believers as well as nonbelievers -- are free to believe what we want to believe or not believe, and to argue with each other. We just can't ask for our government to settle the argument," says Dan Barker, co-president of the 29-year-old organization.
While Muslim and Jewish folks might be fasting this month, for Ramadan and Yom Kippur, we visited with Barker and co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor to find out about those who would never fast (let alone pray, preach, meet or worship) for a God they can't prove exists.
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See the video here.
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Hillary Rhodes is an asap reporter based in New York.
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