IN THE NEWS: We listen to Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s response after she was disinvited to give the commencement at Brandeis University when they withdrew her honorary doctorate for her remarks …
Day: April 12, 2014
Police chief uses office to blatantly promote Christianity
The Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter of complaint and records request March 11 to Birmingham, Ala., Police Chief A.C. Roper objecting to his organizing and endorsing a Christian ministry called …
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FFRF: Ritual circumcision poses dangers
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, concerned about dangers to public health posed by ritual circumcision, has contacted New York state, local and national officials about the religious practice. According to …
FFRF billboard counters Christian banner in Pitman
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, the nation’s largest association of atheists and agnostics, is sponsoring a secular holiday billboard in the borough of Pitman, N.J., a location that in the …
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Band director no longer directing prayer at S.C. high school (December 12, 2013)
The marching band director at a high school in Rock Hill School District Three, Rock Hill, S.C., had apparently initiated a student prayer circle prior to performances. FFRF successfully ended …
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God Made Me Do It (September 2001)
Faith killing. A young mother maintained that voices in her head told her to test her faith in God, causing her to repeatedly slam her infant son to the ground and …
From Mormonism to Reality by Valerie Kent (September 2001)
I’ll never forget the moment of first hearing the voice of my own reason after 17 years of complete immersion in Mormonism. My divorce was almost final and I had …
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Removing the Shackles of Religion by Edmond Lau (September 2001)
By Edmond Lau Thirteen years of Catholic indoctrination have neither elucidated the truth about God and about heaven and hell, nor budged me from my state of agnosticism. Grasping these …
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America: A Religion of Respect (September 2001)
Despite fervent claims to the contrary, the United States was not founded as a Christian nation. Since the inception of American democracy, our government has resisted religious intolerance by maintaining …
