Activism
Atheism: Lamp or Blowtorch?
There is a pervasive stereotype in our society that all atheists are “angry” and “unreasonable.” There are certainly easy enough examples to which we can point: Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris…the list goes on. And while I admire these men and the work they’ve done…they seem to create a backlash that sometimes makes open […]
Sam Harris: Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks
Geert Wilders, conservative Dutch politician and provocateur, has become the latest projectile in the world’s most important culture war: the zero-sum conflict between civil society and traditional Islam. Wilders, who lives under perpetual armed guard due to death threats, recently released a 15 minute film entitled Fitna (”strife” in Arabic) over the internet. The film […]
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Why Atheists Should Start Their Own Religion-Free Churches
Is it an oxymoron for atheists to start their own churches? Even God-less ones? As more North Americans continue to move away from religion, a growing movement to efficiently organize is taking root. How atheism is learning from its fiercest critics.
Digital Journal — Atheism inched its way into the spotlight when two best-selling books stormed […]
Atheists protest by donating blood
While New York’s worshippers are filling churches, mosques and synagogues to pray tomorrow on the National Day of Prayer, atheists in the city will be gathering to protest.
The Center for Atheism, a national group of atheists based in New York City, will be holding its annual Gift to Life Day as an alternative to the […]
Ben Stein’s Blunder
Ben Stein’s Blunder
In a new documentary film — Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed — the actor, game show host and financial columnist Ben Stein falls for the pseudoscience of Intelligent Design
by Michael Shermer
In 1974 I matriculated at Pepperdine University as a born-again Christian who rejected Darwinism and evolutionary theory, not because I knew anything about […]
Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats
FORT RILEY, Kan. — When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending.
But minutes into the talk, the officer, Maj. Freddy J. Welborn, began to berate Specialist Hall and another soldier about atheism, Specialist Hall wrote […]
No Child Left Inside Initiative
Our children are less connected to the natural world than at any other time in
history. The implications of this, particularly for their physical and mental health, are immense.
People have limited contact with natural environments.
This is likely due to a complex mix of factors, including changes in the physical and social environments as well […]
Unhappiness, conflict, ethnicity, religion and rational atheism
Randolph Nesse1 has written recently that despite all of our technological achievements and the elimination of scourges such as hunger, pain, disease and disaster,” vast numbers of people remain deeply unhappy, and many of the rest live lives that feel frantic, meaningless or both. What we have been doing to increase general happiness is […]
Did Atheism loose morals cause 911?
“We’re clearly in a new era,” the conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza told a mostly full auditorium at Skyview High School Wednesday night. “The first is the rise of radical Islam. But we have another phenomenon. That is the rise of militant atheism.”
Not your rumpled shirt ACLU lawyer kind of atheism, either, D’Souza said. But the […]
Controversial Billboard Causes Consternation in Florida
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — It looked harmless enough, but the words on a billboard un-nerved so many people that a popular restaurant nearby actually lost business.
The billboard was on Colonial Drive near the Old Cheney Highway. Although the popular Straub’s Seafood restaurant often advertises on it, this wasn’t their billboard. The sign was taken […]
Dutch Film Website Shut Down
A website that a Dutch right-wing politician was planning to use to release a film expected to be fiercely critical of Islam has been suspended. The US hosting service, Network Solutions, said it was investigating complaints that it may have breached guidelines on hate language.
Dutch politician Geert Wilders says the 15-minute film describes Islam as […]
Flying Spagetti Monster appears on the courthouse lawn!
Crossville, Tennessee is about to get a dose of LOVE. In reaction to a Hand carved wooden Last Supper by a local chainsaw artist (”They came, they chainsawed, they carved”), a local Pastafarian has made a representation of the FSM to be unveiled on the courthouse lawn today and I plan to be there!
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A Guide to Atheism Activism
Activism is about achieving results. If you are going to spend your valuable time being an activist, you should utilize a strategy that is effective in producing results. A single activist can achieve results by using a procedure that is effective.
There is more to being an effective activist than being right. […]
Activism 101
People often come across issues which are of importance to them, which they want to take a stand on one side or the other. This is encouraged in our democratic society - it is often how progress is made in our society. But people then often ask the question, ‘How […]
8Mar2008 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
Atheist Soldier Says Army Punished Him
By JOHN MILBURN – 18 hours ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A soldier claimed Wednesday that his promotion was blocked because he had claimed in a lawsuit that the Army was violating his right to be an atheist.
Attorneys for Spc. Jeremy Hall and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation refiled the federal lawsuit Wednesday in Kansas City, […]
Protests at ‘high priest of atheism’ - Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk
AN OXFORD professor brought out Christian protesters and an audience of 1,600 to hear his latest attack on religious faith.
Best-selling author Prof Richard Dawkins hugely exceeded expectations of The University of Liverpool for the second in its series of four lectures to tie in with European Capital of Culture 2008.
The demand for his The God […]
Ripping into the Bible
by Maggie Ardiente
Published in the Humanist, March/April 2008
ON THE MORNING of December 7, 2007, Christopher Campbell walked into his English Honors class at Parker High School, prepared to tear out pages of the Bible.
Earlier that week his teacher had taped aphorisms by Ralph Waldo Emerson on the blackboard. Students were to select an […]
Banned Books
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A Pragmatist and a Lobbyist on Atheism
By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN Published: February 23, 2008 ALBANY The atheist lobby, in the blond, pregnant person of Jennifer Lange, waited with diminishing patience for the elevator in the Legislative Office Building. Ms. Lange checked her watch one last time, then rounded a corner into the corridor and skipped down four flights […]
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Godless Pride
By Art Levine
In late September, on her second day of work as the first registered lobbyist in Washington for atheists and other nonbelievers, Lori Lipman Brown, the director of the Secular Coalition for America, was on the phone with a Christian talk show host in California, projecting a kindly tone. “Some people say, ‘I’m praying […]
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