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“Battle of Church and State”: Listen to the song by Dan Barker
“Days of Theocracy”: Hear the song by kristin Lems
ARIS: America Growing More Secular: Statistics on the growing number of “Nonreligious” Americans
Boy Scouts Of America Practices Discrimination: Article by Annie Laurie Gaylor
Darwin Day: February 12 is “Darwin Day”.
Freethought at the Flicks: Movies with a freethought perspective.
Freshmen Religious Preference at Four-Year Colleges: Only Catholics Exceed ‘None’ - (Chronicle of Higher Education 2009 poll)
In God We (Don’t) Trust: A series of articles showing the history of how a religious motto supplanted U.S. secular heritage.
Pedophilia in the Church: Articles on the clergy and child abuse, by Freedom From Religion Foundation staff.
Proclamations: Secular proclamations.
Richard Dawkins Institute - Out Campaign: A place to be proud and organize with other freethinkers.
Secular Memorials and Funerals Without God: Information and ideas about dogma-free funerals.
The ABC’s of the Bible: A listing of bible images showing that the bible is anything but a “Good Book”
The Case Against School Prayer: Q&A, compelling arguments, and references to relevant Supreme Court cases
The Pledge of Allegiance: A series of articles on the origin, history, and meaning of the Pledge.
There Ought Not To Be A Law: Two articles, originally published in Freethought Today, 1990

Contributed Articles

“Time to Stand Up”: by Richard Dawkins.
Confessions of a Lonely Atheist: by Natalie Angier.
PEW’s Religious Landscape Survey, February 25, 2008: 16% unaffiliated; 1 in 4 age 18-29 are not affiliated with any religion
Pledging Allegiance to Constitution: by Michael Newdow.

American Religious Identification Survey 2008: Shows nonreligious at 15% and growing & other encouraging statistics (released March 2009).
American Religious Landscape (Pew/Akron U 2004): 16% of Americans “unaffiliated”.
ARIS 2001: America Growing More Secular: Statistics on the growing number of “Nonreligious” Americans
Journal of Religion & Society: 2005 journal article.