By George Kane Two stories of religious strife between Christians and Muslims in America played out in September. First came manufactured Christian outrage over the approval by New York City planners of a Muslim culture center down a side street two blocks from Ground Zero. Presidential hopefuls Sarah Palin and Read more
By Jason Schoenack The Red River Freethinkers held an enthusiastic conference in Fargo on September 18. The conference, called “Project 42”, attracted an overflow crowd at the downtown Hotel Radisson. The name was taken from the novel The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, where 42 was the ultimate answer to Read more
John Fitzgerald Kennedy delivered the following address (reprinted below is a portion) to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, on September 12, 1960. He was campaigning for president, and many conservative Protestants opposed him because he was a Catholic. This speech is considered a classic exposition of American separation of church Read more
By George Kane For several years, we have celebrated the fifth Sunday of any month with a highly successful fundraising meal for our special projects. For the last couple of years, this has been a Flying Spaghetti Monster feast featuring a wide variety of sauces donated by members. This August, Read more
On Tuesday, September 28th, the Pew Forum reported in an executive summary that “atheists agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world Read more