A nationally-watched Wisconsin law creating a state coordinator to “assist” clergy to develop “community-wide standards of marriage” was ruled unconstitutional in a firm decision issued on May 25 by U.S. …
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These were the stages of my life: kid, Christian, priest, non-attendance at church, ex-priest, atheist, human being. I’d like to briefly fill in the blanks of what I mean by …
Is there more media coverage of religion than ever before? I ask because what used to be a tedious irritation for me has now become a major source of disgust, …
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Skeptical author and commentator Wendy Kaminer, with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be named this year’s “Freethought Heroine” at the national convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation …
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Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov edited by Stanley Asimov (Doubleday 1995) “Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” (p. 316, 22 February 1966) “I have …
A federal court decision is expected this summer over the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s nationally-watched challenge of a Wisconsin state coordinator to “assist” clergy in adopting community marriage standards. Under …
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In freethought circles it is a maxim widely accepted on its intrinsic merit that “the church gets the credit, and the taxpayer gets the bill.” A case in point is …
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This is Maine FFRF member Meredith “Dick” Springer’s letter in September to the Boy Scouts of America: In 1943 I proudly received my Eagle Scout badge from the Boy …
A weekly “Christian Witness Club” meeting for elementary school students during lunch at the grade school in Green Forest, Arkansas, is being protested by the Freedom From Religion Foundation on …
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