I met local attorney Peter Martin at a First Amendment meeting during “Occupy,” when he mentioned that he was concerned about the prayers before our city council in Eureka, Calif. …
Day: March 15, 2013
Pope decides to operate as mere mortal
Josef Ratzinger, aka Pope Benedict XVI, announced Feb. 11 he would abdicate his papacy and position as Vatican head of state on Feb. 28. He’s the first pope to quit …
What Made Me Turn To Atheism by Carl Zimmerling (April 2000)
It really started over sixty years ago in (Nazi) Germany where I was born and where I spent my childhood and youth, while I was raised by moderately Christian (Lutheran) …
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Sharing the Crankmail
This crank mail, printed as received, is dedicated to the ones they love to hate: Separation of synagouge from State: You are a Christ-murderer or the tool thereof- Deicidists: …
FFRF fights Big Mountain Jesus
FFRF filed a brief Feb. 15 fighting the federal government’s motion in support of a permanent shrine to Jesus in the Flathead National Forest, leased at no cost since the …
New suit documents ‘alarming history of violence, threats’
Below is an excerpted version of the memorandum in support of a motion to use pseudonyms and request a protective order for plaintffs in Doe v. Jackson City School District, …
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FFRF legal victories
College agrees coach’s prayers unconstitutional Coaches at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., have been instructed to stop proselytizing student athletes after getting a Nov. 8 complaint letter from FFRF …
Steven Weinberg: Free People From Superstition
Professor Steven Weinberg prefaced his acceptance speech as the first Emperor Has No Clothes awardee by saying, “I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn’t start with an invocation!” Weinberg …
Steven Weinberg on Religion by Steven Weinberg (April 2000)
“I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I …
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