June 18, 2024

Orlando, FL VA Facility Defiantly and Abruptly Puts Bible Back After Initially Removing It From POW/MIA Table Per MRFF’s Demand MRFF Admin Military Religious Freedom Foundation

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Read More Military Religious Freedom Foundation In response to MRFF’s demand, the Orlando, Florida Veterans Administration Health Care System (VAHCS) removed an illicit, unconstitutionally placed bible from a POW/MIA table displayed in their lobby. The unconstitutionally placed Bible was removed within one and a half hours of MRFF’s demand on behalf of its 13 military […]

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Michelle Dowd — Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult Skeptic Skeptic

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Read More Skeptic Michelle Dowd discusses her memoir, Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult, detailing her upbringing in “The Field,” an ultra-religious cult in the Angeles National Forest. She describes learning survival skills amidst abuse and isolation, eventually finding freedom through a deep connection with nature. Now a journalism professor, Dowd shares her

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“Shaking” It Up: Centering Black Quakers on Juneteenth The Humanist TheHumanist.com

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Freedom Day, better known to some as Juneteenth, has been commemorated on June 19th as a federal holiday in the United States since 2021. Although some people believe that Juneteenth is “the day that slavery ended,” this is not the case. President Lincoln released his Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, stating that all enslaved

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The True Impact of Cancel Culture: Don’t Underestimate the Chilling Effect on Speech Reggie Peralta Atheists for Liberty

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Read More Atheists for Liberty Cancel culture is far from the greatest threat to liberty today. We live in a time when the “possibility of Armageddon” is the highest it’s ever been since the Cuban missile crisis. However, the actual harms from cancel culture shouldn’t be underestimated. For example, cancel culture results in a chilling

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From the archives: Astrology, Gauquelin and the real explanation for the “Mars Effect” Anthony Garrett The Skeptic

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This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 2, Issue 5, from 1988. Some years ago Michel Gauquelin, for many years skeptical, suggested that astrology was validated by findings on top European sportsmen and women. In Gauquelin’s sample of sports stars, the planet Mars lay in two particular sectors of the birth chart more often

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