After learning about the harassment endured by atheist soldiers in Iraq who attempted to start a group, the North Alabama Freethought Association decided to start a program intended to show support for their efforts. To find out more and learn how you can help, visit the Operation Foxhole Atheists website Read more
President George W. Bush said the following in an interview with German newspaper BILD: “The President’s job is never to promote a religion. The great thing about America—and Germany, for that matter—is that you should be able to worship freely. I like to tell people, you’re equally American whether you’re Read more
The University of Minnesota’s newspaper, The Minnesota Daily, recently released a survey of the religious beliefs of U of M students. 7.5% of those surveyed responded that they were atheists and 14.9% said they were agnostics. This in spite of the fact that only 2% said they were raised as Read more
Michelle Goldberg, a senior writer at the online magazine Salon and author of the book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, has written a sobering piece on the erosion of civil rights in appeasement of a Christian worldview and what must be done to stop it. She writes, “. Read more
In a powerful piece for The Nation, Katha Pollitt has crystallized the consequences of allowing religious interests to control human sexuality. Her case in point: suppression of a vaccine against cervical cancer because the religious right fears it will encourage premarital sex. 3,000 preventable American deaths per year is a Read more