Name: Perry Mitchell. Where I live: Atlanta, near Emory University. Where and when I was born: Atlanta, 1943. Family: My wonderful, smart wife, Pam (an agnostic); grown daughter, Susan (an …
Day: March 11, 2011
Freethought Radio – December 11, 2010
Reason’s Greetings? Heathen’s Greetings? FFRF discusses the French burka ban with lawyer Sarah Braasch who just returned from France. Podcast. …
Indiana school mentor program modified
Hamilton Southeastern School District [Fishers, Ind.] received a letter from attorney Robert Tiernan, on behalf of FFRF and an FFRF complainant, objecting that one of its mentor programs included in …
Atheist Barker to debate evangelist D’Souza
"Is God the Problem? Would the world be better off without religion?" is the debate topic Thursday, Oct. 14, at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Union Theater, 800 Langdon St., …
Florida school board admits Christian fundraiser was wrong
The Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter (June 28, 2010) to the superintendent of Hillsborough County School District (Tampa, Fla.) over “grave federal and state constitutional concerns” occurring at …
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FFRF puts Louisiana board on notice
Could a lawyer pressing a state-church separation case have a better ally than David Tate? Maybe not. At a July 22 meeting of the Livingston Parish [La.] School Board, member …
‘Man Made God,’ not vice versa
Barbara G. Walker’s new collection of essays, many of which were excerpted over the years in Freethought Today, is Man Made God (Stellar House Publishing, 2010). Walker, a scholar of …
Wall of separation requires vigilance
America is not a Christian nation. We are not one nation under god. We are a secular nation and the better for it. The unfounded belief that we are a …
Religion and war: Barbara G. Walker
A nation that harbors a huge, expensive war machine must employ the machine by creating wars and must maintain a relatively unthinking public willing to support the military behemoth when …
