1994 Freethinker Of The Year Mel Schlesinger was awarded the 1994 Freethinker Of The Year award, entailing a plaque and honorarium, for “his 10-year battle to keep state and church …
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Roger Cleveland, director of the Birmingham, Alabama Freethought Association, a Foundation chapter, was one of two victorious litigants named “1993 Freethinkers of the Year” at the sixteenth annual Freedom From …
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“I think so, yes. I have the necessity to think there is a God, but not the God I was breastfed on — a more compassionate one. But, when faced …
“Personally, I would like to see the prayers gone. I’m an atheist. I don’t want to say the prayers. If others want to say the prayers they’re open to do …
“I have found my religion in the theater, where I least expected to find it, and where few will credit it exists. Yet it was in these godless nineteen-twenties that …
“A church is something very beautiful. It is nice when people feel happy in it. But I am not a religious man. Look at us, and then at the infinity …
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of …
“Can we get back to the fight against religious psychos who think it’s appropriate to impose their will and their reign of terror onto women?” …
“I don’t know if there is a God, I’m agnostic — the cheap and easy way.” …
