June 21, 2022

MRFF Succeeds in Getting Punishment for Officer Using Baffling Brownies to Lure his Unit into Becoming “Witness Bearing Christians” MRFF Admin Military Religious Freedom Foundation

Read More Military Religious Freedom Foundation A few weeks ago, the members of a large military unit started noticing brownies being left around their workspaces. On these brownies, in blue icing, were question marks. The question mark brownies kept appearing for over a week, their source and meaning unknown to the puzzled members of the

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SCOTUS Opinion: Carson v. Makin Heather Rigby Secular Coalition for America

Read More Secular Coalition for America With today’s decision in Carson v. Makin, the Supreme Court has decided that taxpayer funds may be used to subsidize tuition at private religious schools, including schools that explicitly discriminate against LGBTQ+ and nonreligious students and teachers. At question is the option the State of Maine provides for parents

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FFRF: Supreme Court ‘abandons longstanding doctrine’ in Maine school voucher decision lauryn@ffrf.org (Lauryn Seering) News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation

Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation In a 6-3 decision issued today, the extremist supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court has dealt another major blow to true religious liberty in its judgment on the Carson v. Makin school voucher case. Outgoing Justice Stephen Breyer, whose resignation is

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Supreme Court Forces Maine to Fund Christian Schools, Undoing Centuries of Precedent American Atheists American Atheists

Read More American Atheists Washington, D.C.—Today, the church-state separation watchdog American Atheists condemned the Supreme Court’s 6–3 ruling in Carson v. Makin, which forces Maine to financially support discriminatory Christian schools—and Christianity itself. “With this decision, the Supreme Court has betrayed our nation’s founding principle that the government should not fund religion, including a majority

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Luxembourg’s nonreligious residents rise to 51% in 2022, new survey shows Javan Lev Poblador Humanists International

Read More Humanists International A new survey in Luxembourg showed that less than half of the residents consider themselves to be religious. The post Luxembourg’s nonreligious residents rise to 51% in 2022, new survey shows appeared first on Humanists International.

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Anil Seth on the Hard Problem of Consciousness, the Self, and the Essence of Volition Skeptic Skeptic

Read More Skeptic Shermer and Seth discuss: consciousness • controlled hallucinations • the self and other minds • Where does consciousness go during general anaesthesia? After death? • Are we living in a simulation that itself is inside a simulation? • Does Deep Blue know that it beat the great Gary Kasparov in chess? •

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