2023

FFRF demands that Indiana sheriff halt inmate baptisms gfletcher@ffrf.org (Gregory Fletcher) News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation

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Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation Immediately cease your unabashed Christian proselytizing, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is insisting to an Indiana sheriff’s department. On Dec. 29, the Decatur County Sheriff’s Facebook page posted a series of photographs (see FFRF letter) displaying Decatur County Detention Center […]

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Avoiding antisemitism when discussing the Jewish billionaire family bankrolling antivaxxers Aaron Rabinowitz The Skeptic

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For my final article about the Better Way antivaxxer convention in Bath, I want to discuss the relationship between antivaxxerism and antisemitic conspiracism. For years now I’ve written about the reverse Godwin effect and the overrepresentation of Jews in conspiracy narratives. In the eight months since I started this series, antisemitic conspiracism has had yet

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Iran: More executions, more protests in Iran, UK and everywhere. Silence is inhuman, unethical and self-defeating AAI Blog Atheist Alliance International

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Read More Atheist Alliance International Submitted by Maryam Namazie. For more information, please contact her at: m.namazie@onelawforall.org.uk. On 7 January, Iran executed another two young men on charges of ‘spreading corruption on earth’ during the morning call to prayers. This time it was Mohammad Mehdi Karami, 21, a karate champion and Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, 20,

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MRFF’s Victory Covered by Iconic Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA): Vice Adm. Has Giant Jesus Painting Swiftly Concealed After MRFF Demand! MRFF Admin Military Religious Freedom Foundation

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Read More Military Religious Freedom Foundation The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports on MRFF’s swift victory in getting the superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Vice Admiral Joanna Nunan, to cover the enormous painting of Jesus that hangs in the Academy’s administration building in a room in which mandatory activities take place. “We think

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Outstanding Work; Many Thanks MRFF Admin Military Religious Freedom Foundation

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Read More Military Religious Freedom Foundation From: USMMA graduate, Class of 1983 (Name, rank, and email address withheld)Date: January 17, 2023 at 4:32:00 PM MSTTo: Michael L Weinstein mikeyw4444@icloud.comSubject: Outstanding Work; Many Thanks Dear Military Religious Freedom Foundation, These past several days I have followed the exchange between the Foundation and the United States Merchant

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FFRF leads organizational sign-on letter opposing the National Prayer Breakfast danielle@ffrf.org (Danielle) News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation

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Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation, joined by 30 secular and religious groups, has sent a letter to members of Congress and the White House today urging a boycott of the National Prayer Breakfast. The event, held annually in the first

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Texas college hides details of ‘gift’ to Christian school gfletcher@ffrf.org (Gregory Fletcher) News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation

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Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation is charging that a Texas public community college is covering up details of its transfer of significant public land to a private Christian school. FFRF recently objected to the gifting of land— including 39 acres

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Jacob Mchangama: “Privileging Blasphemy Norms Over Open Inquiry Plays Into the Hands of Religious Fundamentalists” – Reason Magazine The AHA Foundation AHA Foundation

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Read More AHA Foundation Hamline University has received considerable backlash for not renewing the employment of a scholar who showed an allegedly

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Atheist Republic News Summary: Sexy Demi Lovato Crucifix Poster Banned… P-admin Atheist Republic

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Read More Atheist Republic Sexy Demi Lovato Crucifix Poster Banned for Offending Christians https://www.atheistrepublic.com/news/sexy-demi-lovato-crucifix-poster-banned-offending-christians Location: United Kingdom A poster promoting Demi Lovato’s latest album, “Holy Fvck,” was banned in the UK by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after four complaints were received. The poster in question depicted Demi Lovato wearing a red and black bondage

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From the archive: Professor Bernard Carr replies to Jon Wainwright on psi effects Bernard Carr The Skeptic

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This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 22, Issue 1, from 2011. I’m grateful to Jon Wainwright for his interesting report of my recent APRU lecture. We may not see eye to eye on everything but his description of what I said is accurate and he makes many cogent points, some of which I

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