How to decide which are the most distressing verses from the Bible? Which are the few that make me cringe the most? What do I use for a measuring stick? …
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The Light We Failed by Catherine Fahringer (May 1997)
It was so many years before I knew anything at all about freethought, freethinkers, or a freethought movement or organization . . . and I was a reader from early …
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Alabama Prayer Law Struck Down (May 1997)
On March 12, 1997, Federal Judge Ira DeMent struck down a 1993 Alabama statute permitting “nonsectarian, nonproselytizing student-initiated voluntary prayer” during compulsory or noncompulsory school-related student assemblies, sporting events, graduation …
Alabama’s Conspiracy Of Ignorance Continues (May 1997)
Alabama’s latest claim to fame is Roy Moore, a Baptist judge who is currently appealing a court order to discontinue prayer before session and to remove the wooden depiction of …
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Foundation Gains Second Good Friday Victory (April 1997)
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has won another round in its ongoing battle to separate church and state. A Wisconsin county, whose supervisors had vowed they would never relinquish a …
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Atheism Vs. Apologetics by George Tipton (April 1997)
Readers of Freethought Todayoften mention that they read it from cover to cover the day they receive it. It just so happened that if I hadn’t read the January/February issue …
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Contemporary Ignorance Encourages Cults (April 1997)
As media ponder the motivation of the Heaven’s Gate mass suicide–in which Marshall Applewhite and 38 followers committed suicide, their bodies discovered in Rancho Santa Fe, California on March 27–the …
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Dare To Question by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (March 1997)
Women Without Superstition, the first anthology of women freethinkers, features a special “Elizabeth Cady Stanton Freethought Reader,” a 50-page section of tantalizing snippets of Stanton’s views on religion over a …
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Religion Is Born Again by Jack Raso (March 1997)
An ill-defined, ragtag, quasi-religious movement is displacing, and in some cases supplementing, organized religion. It goes by more than two dozen names. It is the new opiate of the people, …
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