Fourteen percent of U.S. adults have no religion, according to the latest American Religious Identification Survey 2001, released by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The …
More » from There Are 29.4 Million Nonreligious Americans (December 2001)
Christian Sunday school curriculum is being openly taught in public schools in Rhea County, Tenn., the Freedom From Religion Foundation has learned through the discovery process in its federal lawsuit. …
More » from Lawsuit Proves Sunday School Illegally Taught in Dayton Public Schools (December 2001)
Human beings are not taught to be atheists; we are born that way. The concept of God is nebulous, irrational, and inconsistent; hardly something a child would imagine. Adherence to …
More » from Morality: The Product of Human Reason, Not Divine Decree (November 2001)
My paternal grandmother is one of the most religious women I’ve ever known. She’s practically run every parish church she’s ever joined. An avid Seventh Day Adventist, she always tries …
Shortly before Easter this year I was at the supermarket, in the soup aisle, when a strange, rather disheveled-looking man walked up to me and began talking. At first it …
The “Ruth (Dixie) Jokinen Memorial Student Activist Award,” an annual award of $1,000 cash presented at the annual Freedom From Religion Foundation convention, is generously endowed by Foundation Board Member …
More » from One Person Can Do So Much by Schiller Hill (November 2001)
Since I don’t believe in gods, I was under no illusions about whether a god was responsible for the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., that have …
More » from Some Evils Require Religion for Their Own Survival (November 2001)
The House of Representatives, in thoughtlessly passing a trouble-making resolution promoting the use of the slogan “God Bless America,” has contributed to an atmosphere of coercion and religious correctness. Bin …
More » from Congressional “God Bless America” Resolution Rapped (November 2001)
In June, a research study on religious nonbelief identity in the U.S. was published by the Departments of Psychology and Learning and Leadership at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. The project …
