By Wayne Ward I recently did some research to find things in the bible that are ridiculous and absurd. The lists by no means include all the ignorant things in …
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Day: May 31, 2005
Drawing the Line at Religion: Charles Cheves
By Charles Cheves I enjoyed reading Steven Pinker’s convention speech (Jan/Feb 05), and thought I might add a few comments concerning religion as a human universal. When I was a …
Yip Harburg: Secular Songwriter: Dan Barker
By Dan Barker The United States Postal Service issued a stamp in April commemorating songwriter Yip Harburg, born on April 8, 1896. The ceremony launching the first-class stamp will be …
Seventh-day Adventist to Atheist: Martin Boyd
By Martin Boyd, M.D. “With Special Forces Training Group at Ft. Bragg, N.C., around 1968-69.” I’m the eldest of five children born in Albuquerque, N.M., to a Seventh-day Adventist couple. …
Excerpt of FFRF Amicus Brief in Van Orden Case: James A. Friedman and James D. Peterson
This is an excerpt of the thorough, 23-page “friend of the court” brief filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation before the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Thomas Van …
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Questioning Those Ten Commandments: Brian Bolton
By Brian Bolton Almost 25 years ago the U.S. Supreme Court, in Stone vs. Graham, declared that the Ten Commandments are undeniably a sacred text and ruled that posting them …
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The Evolutionary Psychology of Religion
Presented at the annual convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Madison, Wis., Oct. 29, 2004. By Steven Pinker Thank you very much; this is a tremendous honor. I look …
On the Military Road to Rationalism: Donald O. Worrell
By Donald O. Worrell Donald O. Worrell then and now. Below, next to FFRF’s Atheists in Foxholes monument, Lake Hypatia, Ala. Shortly before I was shipped overseas in November 1944, …
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Student Activist Award: Catherine Goodsett-Wein
This acceptance speech was delivered by Catherine Goodsett-Wein on behalf of her daughter, 13, on Oct. 30, 2004, at the national convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Madison, …
