If Atheists Acted Religious
The Institutionalized Ramming of Christianity into Public Schools
The start of every year brings with it a new round of creationist craziness. Unfortunately, this craziness originates not from the bowels of America’s churches as you might expect but from the very people entrusted to uphold, maintain and support the law – our state legislators. The creationist bills they author tend to have one thing in common besides the fact that they are written to circumvent the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause or our right to the separation of church and state.
The wording is typically mined from a database provided by the radical Christian right organization Discovery Institute, which, critics charge, seeks to bring the United States under Christian theocracy. To that end, this well-funded institute has in its arsenal stock phrases designed to undermine what is taught in public school science classes. Climate change and evolution are often targeted in order to force reality into a biblically-inspired world…
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Christian Polling Group Finds Atheists Divorce Less Than Christians
by David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement, 7/2/13 (Excerpt)
An Evangelical Christian pollster finds that atheists commit less crimes, divorce less, and are better educated than their fellow Christians. “It is obvious that you do not have to believe in a higher power in order to live a moral and successful life. Quite the opposite,” the Knoxville News‘ Al Westerfield writes of the study, adding that “the groups with the highest crime rate, the poorest marriages and the lowest education continually strive to force their beliefs on the nonreligious. And the politicians pander to them. Why else would they pass laws to put religion in the schools and on courthouse facades? And then they wonder why the godless could possibly be upset.”
Freedom From Religion Foundation Runs Full-Page July 4th Ad in Major Newspapers: “Celebrate Our Godless Constitution”
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Excerpt from “FFRF’s July 4 ad counters Hobby Lobby disinformation,” 7/1/13.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is running a full-page ad celebrating “our GODLESS Constitution” in a number of U.S. dailies on July 4. FFRF, a state/church watchdog based in Madison, Wis., serves as the nation’s largest association of freethinkers (atheists and agnostics).
The ad is a direct response to a series of July 4 ads sponsored annually by Hobby Lobby since 2008, which shamelessly promote the myth that the United States was founded on God and Christianity. The large craft store chain’s ads of disinformation appear ti run in hundreds of dailies. Although FFRF can’t compete with Hobby Lobby by running ads in virtually every daily, it is undertaking the single most expensive ad campaign in its history to counter the Religious Right message.
The ads quote U.S. Founders and Framers on their strong views against religion…
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University Researchers Say There Are Six Typologies of Non-Believers. Which One Are You?
Beat Generation Rollover of 1965
It’s one of the lesser cosmic mysteries but still an interesting one. When did the San Francisco Beat Generation disappear?
Beat G was going strong in 1963. That was self-evident. By 1967, the hippie counterculture movement was everywhere in the City and the Beats were gone.
So, when did this rollover really happen?
It wasn’t a light-switch deal. But it also wasn’t a slow morphing. The change was farily swift by usual social standards, and the Beats were forever scattered, absorbed, whatever. Many of us geezers who are still around like to think of 1965 as the year the world changed.
In fact, we can even pinpoint the month and the day. It was Friday, December 3, 1965. The event was Bob Dylan’s San Francisco press conference at the KQED studio just prior to his five concert tour of the Bay Area.
Well, maybe this is a bit too precise…
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Guest Post by Author Matthue Roth: “How to Analyze Kafka (Hint: It Helps if You’re 4 yrs Old)”
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Happy 4th of July
To all those who are celebrating, here are some fireworks – just for you!
Wes
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