News Releases Archive

January 6, 2015

FFRF takes “atheists in foxholes” ad in USA Today’s Year in Defense edition

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a state/church watchdog which is the nation’s largest association of freethinkers (atheists and agnostics), has a full-page ad geared at “atheists in foxholes” in the …

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December 24, 2014

Away with the manger — in with the Solstice!

For a fact, the Christians stole Christmas. We don’t mind sharing the season with them, but we don’t like their pretense that it is the birthday of Jesus. It is …

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December 24, 2014

Vandals tear down FFRF banner; more religious signs go up

The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s solstice banner on the lawn of the Bulloch County Courthouse in Statesboro, Ga., was torn down by vandals. FFRF’s local member coordinating the display was …

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December 23, 2014

FFRF/atheist billboards blanket Chicago for holidays

  Correction: The removed billboard referenced was originally at 130th St. and Saginaw Avenue in Chicago and is being moved to Cottage Grove Avenue and Joe Orr Street in Chicago …

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December 23, 2014

What I want for Christmas…

By Robert Green Ingersoll The Arena, Boston, December 1897  If I had the power to produce exactly what I want for next Christmas, I would have all the kings and emperors …

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December 23, 2014

FFRF suit results in early removal of Indiana crèche

The devotional Christian nativity scene on the Franklin County, Ind., courthouse lawn will come down this Friday, Dec. 26, instead of staying up through at least mid-January as it typically …

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December 22, 2014

FFRF puts up freethought solstice banner in rural Ga.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation set up a banner outside the Bulloch County Courthouse in Statesboro, Ga., in protest of a nativity scene hosted on the courthouse’s lawn. The prominent …

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December 22, 2014

FFRF display joins others at Michigan capitol

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has entered the holiday display fray at the Michigan Capitol in Lansing. A local member of FFRF put up a display today to accompany a …

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December 19, 2014

‘Reason’s Greetings’ by nonbelievers goes up in N.Y. park

A freethought display will go up today in VFW Park in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., to counter two religious holiday displays traditionally hosted in the park, a Catholic church’s nativity scene and …

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