April 2024

N.C. school district assures FFRF about religious activities hahnr@ffrf.org (Rowan Hahn) 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 Union County Public Schools in North Carolina has informed the Freedom From Religion Foundation that it won’t promote religious events in its schools.A concerned local community member had communicated to the state/church watchdog that Sardis Elementary School in Monroe, N.C., […]

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Write a Humanist Haiku for National Poetry Month The Humanist TheHumanist.com

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Poetry has the power to transform minds and bring forth powerful moments of introspection. Now in its fifth year, TheHumanist.com’s annual haiku contest is back in 2024 to give our readers the opportunity to commemorate April’s National Poetry Month through creative and provocative poems. A haiku is a seemingly-simple form of poetry in three lines:

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Free Markets vs. Special-Interest-Pandering Politicians Sheldon Richman Atheists for Liberty

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Read More Atheists for Liberty Trump promises to slam a 100-percent tariff on imported cars made in Chinese-owned factories in Mexico. He announced this not to a group of prospective car buyers but to a group of car makers. So what else is new? Car buyers, who outnumber the well-organized car makers but are not themselves organized,

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FFRF co-president’s Ten Commandments op-ed published in multiple Utah papers 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 FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor dissects in a recent op-ed published in a number of Utah newspapers a new law that allows the Ten Commandments to be taught in public schools. “The measure says that the commandments should be added

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From the archives: Are near-death experiences sufficient proof of life after death? Antony Flew The Skeptic

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This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 2, Issue 4, from 1988. Since the seventies there has been a revival of interest in, and a considerable expansion of the study of, near-death experiences (NDEs); especially those describable as out-of-the-body experiences (OBEs). For instance, J.C. Hampe’s To Die is to Gain (London: Darton, Langman and

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Eve Herold — Robots and the People Who Love Them Skeptic Skeptic

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Read More Skeptic Shermer and Herold discuss: social robots, sex robots, robot nannies, robot therapists • flying cars, jetpacks and The Jetsons • Masahiro Mori • emotions, animism, mind • emotional intelligence • artificial intelligence • large language lodels • ChatGPT, GPT-4, GPT-5 and beyond • the alignment problem • robopocalypse • robo soldiers •

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MRFF VICTORY!!! In Response To MRFF’s Demand USMC Trademark & Licensing Program Stops Company Using Official USMC Emblem on Christian Crusader Coins  MRFF Admin Military Religious Freedom Foundation

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Read More Military Religious Freedom Foundation “[T]he coin designs in question were not approved by the Marine Corps. After communication with the vendor, we have been assured that THE VENDOR HAS WITHDRAWN THE COINS FROM THE MARKETPLACE and has DESTROYED ITS REMAINING STOCK.” — Letter from U.S. Marine Corps Trademark Counsel to MRFF Click to read

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MRFF Allies Rabbi Joel Schwartzman & Mike Challman, and MRFF Advisory Board Members Mike Farrell & Marty France Respond to Crude, Uneducated, Hateful Message “Easter Trees Audie Murphy” MRFF Admin Military Religious Freedom Foundation

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Read More Military Religious Freedom Foundation From: (name and email address withheld)Subject: Easter Trees Audie MurphyDate: April 8, 2024 at 8:37:22 AM MDTTo: mikey@militaryreligiousfreedom.org Did you assholes bother to ask the opinions of veterans at Audie Murphy if they liked the Easter Trees before you demanded they be removed?  I bet not.  I hope the

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Humanists International joins Call for Open Civic Space ahead of European elections Tania Giacomuzzi Mota Humanists International

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Read More Humanists International Humanists International has endorsed a European wide civil-society manifesto aimed at amplifying the call for an open civic space and heightened dialogue with policymakers across the European Union in view of the upcoming European elections (6th to 9th June 2024). The post Humanists International joins Call for Open Civic Space ahead

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