"Support for NPR comes from the estate of Richard Leroy Walters, whose life was enriched by NPR, and whose bequest seeks to encourage others to discover public radio."
I'd been curious about Richard Leroy Walters too. Turns out he was a homeless millionaire who divested himself of material possessions, except for a radio tuned to NPR.
That's mind-blowing enough. But then his friend and executor said:
"He was an atheist and I'm a very profound practicing Catholic, and I'd never met an atheist," Belle says. "And that just blew my mind that somebody could not believe in the Lord."
It explains a lot about our politics and culture wars, doesn't it, that an intelligent, professional American can say such a thing in public with a straight face?
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