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A fresh version of an iconic Freedom From Religion Foundation ad featuring Ron Reagan is set to premier on Rachel Maddow’s and Stephen Colbert’s highly watched shows.

The updated spot, in which the “unabashed atheist” is still notably “not afraid of burning in hell,” will debut on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show.” The ad is slated to run six times, starting Tuesday, Sept. 7, through Thursday, Sept. 9, and then from Tuesday, Sept. 14, through Thursday, Sept. 16.

The new 30-second spot will also appear six times on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” on CBS nationally, from Tuesday, Sept. 20, through Thursday, Sept. 22, and the week after from Tuesday, Sept. 28, through Thursday, Sept. 30.

This year is the first year that the CBS national network has accepted the ad.

In the updated TV spot, Reagan, a former ballet dancer, is still seated on stage in an empty auditorium — but the new ad is more colorful, with added technical pizzaz and a few minor modifications. Reagan’s memorable lines still sing:

Hi, I’m Ron Reagan, an unabashed atheist, and I’m alarmed, as you may be, by the intrusion of religion into our secular government. That's why I’m asking you to join the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the nation’s largest and most effective association of atheists and agnostics, working to keep state and church separate, just like our Founders intended. Please join the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Ron Reagan, lifelong atheist, not afraid of burning in hell.

Ron also recorded a more intimate 50-second digital spot reflecting on what’s changed since he first recorded the spot in 2014. Watch here (or click on the embedded video above).

Reagan, who is the son of President Reagan and Nancy Reagan, has spoken on FFRF’s “Freethought Matters” TV show about why he stopped attending church as a 12-year-old and what happened when he told his father. He has received FFRF’s Emperor Has No Clothes Award for his outspoken, life-long identification as an atheist and advocate of the separation between religion and government.

After FFRF aired the ad during several Democratic presidential debates carried by CNN in 2019, Reagan was credited with “winning” and becoming the top trending search on Google.

“We are so grateful to Ron for continuing to lend his celebrity to the Freedom From Religion Foundation,” says Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF co-president. “Everywhere we go, including in Congress, the public now recognizes FFRF, thanks to Ron, and realizes there are many atheists and freethinkers in America, including the son of a conservative president.”

HippieChick58 9 Sep 2
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That is SOO informative. If it matters, that is like me, forced into the religious nonsense, and just as forcefully fighting every bit of it.

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Certainly not like father like son in this case.

Amen and AAAMEN!

He is a great guy. His dad and Nancy got at least one thing right.

@BufftonBeotch They did one thing right despite themselves.

@HippieChick58 YES!

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I love his ads. It's probably the first, if only time, some people will hear that it's ok to be an atheist.

But I am an AGNOSTIC---- I refuse to fight something as foolish as religion!

@OldMetalHead Excellent point----- and I agree. But that is also about intrusion of personal liberty for any reason that is 'fluffed' out of a/any tiny brain/s.

And in Afganistan girls can't go to school "because they are inferior"! Maybe in some book there should be writen, "The stupid shall inherit the Earth." , because the way things are going, it sure looks like it.

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Finally!!!

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