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. …
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Freethinkers Of the Early Texas Hill Country by Edwin E. Scharf (April 1998)
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 …
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Church Bulletin Discount Halted (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 …
Death After Life: Book Review of Sagan’s Billions & Billions by Dan Barker (April 1998)
In 1980, I was right in the middle of my swing from fundamentalist minister to atheist, moving out of evangelcalism. The reason I didn’t stop and settle anywhere along that …
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Katha Pollitt: Freethought Heroine (April 1996)
This speech was presented at the annual convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Denver, Colorado, September 29, 1995, following presentation of the “Freethought Heroine” award to Katha Pollitt. …
A Passion For The Possible by Susan Hill, Executive Director National Women’s Health Organization (April 1996)
This is excerpted from an address delivered to the New York Planned Parenthood on October 2, 1995 by Susan Hill, executive director of the National Women’s Health Organization. In the …
Praise The Lord And Pass The Amendment by Judith Hayes (April 1996)
Ayoung friend recently acquired her first teaching job, as a third-grade teacher, in our rural school district. Starry-eyed and idealistic, she was bubbling about all of her glorious plans for …
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Contract On The Family Sets Agenda Of Congress by Annie Laurie Gaylor (April 1996)
Ever since Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition unveiled its so-called “Contract with the American Family” last May, this rightwing Christian lobbying group has been setting the Congressional agenda. When presenting its …
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Fifty-Year-Old “Good Friday” Law Struck Down (April 1996)
U.S. District Judge John Shabaz ruled on February 24 that Wisconsin’s Good Friday legal holiday is unconstitutional. Shabaz agreed with the Freedom From Religion Foundation that the holiday violates the …
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