Let cross into Ground Zero memorial
Pacific Daily News
It's more often atheist activists who seek to alter the long-standing status quo by scrubbing the landscape of the most visible signs of the nation's religious heritage. American Atheists, an organization representing the civil liberties of agnostics, ...

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Atheist group has no immediate plan to go after Air Force innkeepers over Bibles
The Warner Robins Patriot
The issue came to the forefront when Torpy and the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers said including Bibles in guest rooms at Air Force lodging facilities represented a "special privilege for Christianity." Torpy told The Patriot that at ...

Michael Medved: Banning crosses erases history
Livingston Daily
It's more often atheist activists who seek to alter the longstanding status quo by scrubbing the landscape of the most visible signs of the nation's religious heritage. American Atheists, an organization representing the civil liberties of agnostics, ...

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Post-2012 Global Atheist Convention: a celebration of reason
On Line opinion
People wanted to connect to other atheists and freethinkers and hear from speakers whose clear thinking has filled many contemporary best-selling books. They wanted to bond to a part of society which rightly considers its voice diminished by religious ...

Salon
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, 2.0
Salon
“Chaplains are senior officers with their commanders' ear, unfettered access to service members, and the right to preach their beliefs from the pulpit,” said Jason Torpy, president of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, which opposes ...

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Mom Was Right After All
New Yorker (blog)
That would come as no surprise to those of us who are part of America's fastest-growing spiritual demographic—atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, freethinkers, and the otherwise unchurched. Score one for our team, no? According to the study, ...

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Michael Medved: Banning crosses erases history
Tasley Eastern Shore News
It's more often atheist activists who seek to alter the long-standing status quo by scrubbing the landscape of the most visible signs of the nation's religious heritage. American Atheists, an organization representing the civil liberties of agnostics, ...

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Michael Medved: Banning crosses erases history
Delmarva Now
It's more often atheist activists who seek to alter the long-standing status quo by scrubbing the landscape of the most visible signs of the nation's religious heritage. American Atheists, an organization representing the civil liberties of agnostics, ...

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Public debate opens atheist convention this weekend
www.kamloopsnews.ca
The debate pits two self-described Christian apologists against two well-known members of the atheist/free-thinking community. Team Yes is comprised of Michael Horner, a philosopher and part-time instructor at Trinity Western University in the Fraser ...

Michael Medved: Banning crosses erases history
Delmarva Now
It's more often atheist activists who seek to alter the long-standing status quo by scrubbing the landscape of the most visible signs of the nation's religious heritage. American Atheists, an organization representing the civil liberties of agnostics, ...

Are There Really No Atheists in Foxholes?
Huffington Post
It's often said that there are no atheists in foxholes. While this isn't technically true -- a group called The Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers even keeps a roster of them -- new research suggests that inducing fear of death at least ...

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What Motivates Us A/Theists to Argue Our Point(s)?
News24
1) “Decreed” Atheism – as in communism – where policy to “not believe” is imposed on a people. > These 'atheists' are truly not atheist in the modern sense at all; they are merely coerced into pursuing an emotional 'cult of personality' and, as such, ...

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Salon
Atheism's new clout
Salon
The so-called “new atheist” movement is definitely not so new. Atheists have been around for decades, and they've been organizing for decades. But something new, something big, has been happening in atheism in the last few years — atheism has become ...

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Enjoy life: skip the latter half of The Atheist's Guide
The MIT Tech
“If science made you an atheist” — it did, it did! — “you are already as strongly committed to the serious scientific answers to the unavoidable questions as you are to atheism” — I am, I am! For Rosenberg, science and atheism seem to be entangled ...

ABC Online
Against a human-made religion: Atheism and Christianity
ABC Online
While I appreciate Young's arguments in favour of civil debate, his article is part of a long-running campaign to brand Christianity in a certain way and keep atheism on the high ground. Yet, there is an essential problem for the atheist movement in ...

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MILITARY: Marine Corps still pondering controversial crosses
North County Times
Officials have been in decision-making mode for roughly six months, since the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers ignited a controversy by complaining that the crosses constitute an unlawful endorsement of Christianity on federal property ...

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We the People - A departure
Valley Breeze
What has become a heated dispute on the streets and in the papers raises a simple question: Can a plain white cross on a 91-year-old war monument in a forsaken parking lot in Woonsocket, RI survive the political left, atheistic scrutiny of those it ...

Billboard reaches non-theists in SA
KSAT San Antonio
"There is the Atheist Families of San Antonio, the Humanists of San Antonio, Texas Hill Country Free Thinkers, San Antonio Atheists, and Free Thinkers Association of Central Texas," said Jim Parker with the San Antonio Coalition of Reason.

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Billboard reaches non-theists in SA
KSAT San Antonio
"There is the Atheist Families of San Antonio, the Humanists of San Antonio, Texas Hill Country Free Thinkers, San Antonio Atheists, and Free Thinkers Association of Central Texas," said Jim Parker with the San Antonio Coalition of Reason.

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SSA 2012 Conference Schedule Posted!
Big Think (blog)
It's titled How to Move Mountains, and it's about how we can make the atheist movement politically successful by learning from the victories of past progressive activists. Here's a teaser: The religious lobby opposing atheism is powerful, ...