This address was presented to the 21st annual convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation on October 17, 1998, at the Edgewater Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin. In 1896 a book …
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Last May at Midwestern State University, Texas, an evangelical Christian student named Mary King made a very strong case against graduation prayer. Interestingly, she did so not by argument, but …
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The first wave of the 1999 Atheist Invasion of Comfort, Texas, swept through the town on February 20th! On Thursday, February 17th, an ominous article appeared in the San Antonio …
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Tip 1. Growth is inevitable, however the brain may take over 20 years before it’s fully developed. Until then, thinking, feeling, and behaving will be immature at times and will …
More » from Ten Basic Ideas For Raising Children by Robert E. Kay, M.D. (April 1999)
It’s a tragic tale. Two men, threatened by what they believed to be unwanted sexual ad vances, beat another man to death with an ax handle, placed his body on …
When I came to Oregon from Britain in 1976, the concept of the separation of church and state was new to me. There, the head of state–the queen–was also the …
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In February I participated in two “Does God Exist?” debates.On February 18 I debated Tom Rode, President of Ohio Campus Crusade For Christ (CCC), at Ohio State Uni versity, Columbus. …
Between the years 1845 and 1860, a large contingent of German Freethinkers immigrated to the Texas Hill Country. Unlike the thousands of Adelsverein-sponsored German farmers immigrating to the United States …
More » from Freethinkers Of the Early Texas Hill Country by Edwin E. Scharf (April 1998)
Although it took nearly five months (sigh), the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s complaint about a local grocer’s violation of the Civil Rights Act by offering a church-bulletin discount has been …
