Distinguished British scientist, author and atheist Richard Dawkins, who was scheduled to accept an “Emperor Has No Clothes Award” on Sept. 22, 2001, at the Freedom From Religion Foundation convention, …
Day: October 22, 2001
Internet Bible Quiz Challenges Concept of Bible as “Good Book”
Do We Really Want Our Government Based on Faith in the Bible? State regulators issued warnings in early August that “more money is stolen in the name of God than …
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Jennifer Essak, Sam Essak, Michael Hakeem, and Richard Uttke
Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc., Anne Gaylor, Annie Laurie Gaylor, Dan Barker, Samuel M. Essak, Jennifer Essak, Richard A. Uttke and Michael Hakeem, 95-C-634-S, Feb. 23, 1996, U.S. District Court, …
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Challenges Creche in Waunakee Park (1994)
In early 1991, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, with two local plaintiffs, challenged a lighted nativity scene in a public park in Waunakee, Wisconsin, which was stored, lighted and maintained …
Roger Cleveland
Roger Cleveland, director of the Alabama Freethought Association, a chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, filed a complaint in 1989 against official chapels in Alabama state parks. He reached …
Percival Everett
“My grandfather was an atheist, my father is — was — an agnostic and I am what I call an ‘apath.’ I simply don’t care. And so, I don’t fit …
Anthony Jeselnik
“I was raised Catholic. I rejected it later on. I’m an outspoken atheist now. People say, ‘Oh, it’s a negative thing to be an atheist.’ I don’t agree. I think …
Nate Phelps
“I would argue that Westboro Baptist Church is just giving voice to the same destructive ideology at the foundation of even the most moderate iteration of that faith. How do …
Rodney Dangerfield
“We’re apes — do apes go anyplace [when they die]?” …
