By Vic Tanner Easter: A Christian holiday with a pagan name dated with a Jewish calendar? There aren’t many holidays in which the date needs to be calculated. Moreover, minor variations in the criteria for these calculations has resulted in different Christian groups, specifically the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Read more
By Steve Petersen At the March cable show taping James Zimmerman produced and hosted two programs. The first was an interview with Bjorn Watland on Minnesota Atheists’ Meet-ups. This was an overview of meet-up activities listed on our meet-up site and easy-to-follow instructions on how to sign on to our Read more
By Crystal Dervetski In the course of writing publicly about atheism, I have come across some questions, and many times opposition, regarding belonging to a formal organization for freethinkers. As with most questions, they are repeated multiple times by a variety of people, and oddly enough, many times they come Read more
By Bjorn Watland Do people behave better the older they get, because they fear “Judgement Day?” Are the problems of our economy due to actions made by people who believe there is no heaven or hell? David Lebedoff seems to think so in his opinion piece at the Star Read more
By Vic Tanner There are many good, rational reasons for not believing in gods. Logically, the existence of one is very low, and scientifically there just isn’t any real evidence. But, for some reason, I always gravitate toward the really stupid reasons. Like religious clothing. According to the Judeo-Christian myths, Read more