Each honorable mention awardee won $200 from FFRF and $50 from Dorea and Dean Schramm. Stopped praying, started thinking By Ashley Bates Perhaps, if I had not catapulted into the …
Day: November 20, 2013
A heretic experiences yeshiva
Five years ago, inside the relentlessly enforced rules of the Haredi Judaism community and under its controlled environment, I began questioning my most ardent beliefs. By age 14, I did …
Freedom not to choose a god
Growing up on the seam between my father’s Muslim family and my mother’s Jewish relatives, I’ve fought to form my own beliefs and opinions. While my parents have never tried …
Katha Pollitt Tells It Like It Is by Katha Pollitt (October 2001)
This acceptance speech was delivered on Sept. 21 at the national FFRF convention in Madison, Wisconsin. I am honored to receive this fine statuette — he’s wonderful! He’s got a …
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Leaving the ‘Truth’ for the truth
The atheist community includes many brave activists. Stories of young activists standing up for their lack of religious belief are especially inspiring, but my story isn’t like that. My story …
FFRF stops school from forcing students to recite pledge of allegiance (November 20, 2013)
Students in an Oquirrh Hills Middle School (West Jordan, Utah) classroom will no longer be reprimanded for refusing to recite the pledge of allegiance, thanks to the Freedom From Religion …
Gauze of God removed, sight renewed – By Daniel Mark Davis
Daniel received $350 for his essay. [This essay was mistakenly omitted from the winners published in the September issue, and the photo was wrongly placed with another essay.] Pyongyang, North …
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Less bible, more tolerance, please – By Raysa Everett
I was raised in Brazil in a Christian family and was taught to trust the bible, “the word of God,” most of my life. I went to church, participated in …
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A walrus on Pluto!? – By Nathan Hume Stevens
It’s strange to see some of my peers, who are academically brilliant, accept the rules of a supernatural and capricious being even as they begin their careers in physics and …
