Recently added articles from Freethought Today:
New FFRF Bus Signs Debut!
Mar 01, 2009; ... Freethought on Wheels: Goal to Hop on Buses & Subways Nationwide! 50 Signs Go Up in Madison, Wis. - Online Appeal Announced If you're looking for "a sign," look no further than buses in Madison, Wis. For the next two months, you won't find a "sign from God" in them - but will ...
Billboards Celebrate Darwin Day
Mar 01, 2009; ... To celebrate and call attention to the Year of Darwin, the national Freedom From Religion Foundation unveiled a new billboard message: "Praise Darwin: Evolve Beyond Belief." The message debuted in late January in Madison, Wis., on Regent and Randall Streets, near the University of ...
Ohio Billboard Stolen, Replaced
Mar 01, 2009; ... A billboard placed in suburban Columbus, Ohio, by the Freedom From Religion Foundaüon to commemorate the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth was stolen sometime after nightfall on Feb. 12, Darwin's 200th birthday, only two days after it went up. Clear Channel Outdoor Co. husded to ...
Let There Be Light Verse
Mar 01, 2009; ... Let There Be Light Verse Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie By Philip Appleman The Quantuck Lane Press (2009) By Dan Barker Llight verse can shed a lot of light. A poem that is fun and frivolous on the surface can hint at volumes of meaning behind the party mask. Why do we laugh at ...
Philosophy
Mar 01, 2009; ... 1 . Blaise Pascal Pascal, reflecting tearfully On our wars for the Holy Pigeon, Said, "Alas, we do evil most cheerfully When we do it for religion." 2. René Descartes The unruly dactyls and anapests, Were thumping their wild ...
2009 Student Essay Scholarships
Mar 01, 2009; ... The topics for the Freedom From Religion Foundation 's two 2009 student essay scholarships have been announced. Both the high school and the college essay competitions involve a $2,000 cash scholarship for the firstplace winning essay, a $1,000 cash scholarship for second place and $500 ...
Dodge County Board Suspends Prayers
Mar 01, 2009; ... FFRF Asks Wisconsin Assembly to Stop Praying (Again) The Freedom From Religion Foundation, based in Madison, Wis., has renewed its request that the Wisconsin State Assembly stop opening sessions with prayer. Last June, the Foundation wrote Assembly Speaker Michael Huebsch that ...
Clara A. Carlson, 102, In Memoriam
Mar 01, 2009; ... Clara A. Carlson, 102, whose death in January was reported last month, had been a member of the Foundation since 1981. She and recently-retired Anne Gaylor, Foundation president emerita, in particular carried on a regular correspondence for more than 30 years Clara would enclose ...
No Glory in War
Mar 01, 2009; ... This was one of Clara 's last public letters, submitted to the Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, Wash., in response to a request from Veterans for Peace. I've been counting the wars the United States has been engaged in since the first one during which, as a colony, we were separated ...
Recalling Illegal Abortion
Mar 01, 2009; ... This was originally published in Freethought Today in November 1986, when Clara was 80. Over 50 years ago I had an abortion. Of course, at that time it was illegal, but there was no public protest or self-righteous moralizing, either, as there is today. At that time, birth ...
Protest Obama's Faith-based Executive Order!
Mar 01, 2009; ... Widespread public outcry greeted the 2001 announcement by Pres. Bush that he was creating a "faithbased initiative." Eight years later, there was scarcely a peep from media and commentators over Pres. Barack Obama's endorsement and continuation of a program which taxes citizens to support ...
Dissecting National Prayer Breakfast Remarks
Mar 01, 2009; ... President Barack Obama used the occasion of the Feb. 5 National Prayer Breakfast to announce his executive order establishing a White House Council of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Obama claimed that taking some "responsibility for the well-being of people . . . requires a living, ...
Not So Intelligent Designer
Mar 01, 2009; ... The notion of American Exceptionalism has received abundant press these past eight years, but what makes for this exceptionalism is not clear. We can be sure that the boast is not because the United States leads all industrialized nations in the acceptance of the biblical story of God's ...
We Are Not Alone
Mar 01, 2009; ... Dan Barker's introduction: Kay Staley, our 2008 Freethinker of the Year, is an attorney and a real estate broker from Houston. She graduated from Baylor University in Waco, earned her JD from the University of Houston Law Center, and ran into a strange display at the civil courthouse ...
Catherine's Sweet Determination
Mar 01, 2009; ... Catherine Fahringer (1922-2008), Foundation activist, officer and San Antonio FFRF chapter founder, was passionate about promoting freethought and halting the religious domination of government. Radiating warmth and determination, she stirred things up in Cadiolic-dominated San Antonio for 20 ...
Black Collar Crime Blotter
Mar 01, 2009; ... By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them Arrested/Charged Greg Washington, 32, Plymouth, MN: arrested on charges of statutory rape. For the second time in five years, the choir director at Zion Baptist Church in Minneapolis is accused of having sex with a member of the congregation, ...
Marquee Madness
Mar 01, 2009; ... Can't Say That I Do and I Occasionally Get Lost! "Attached is a photo taken in Helena, Mont. We get these billboards signed by 'God' on a regular basis. At least we know 'God' is working and earning money to rent billboard space! Sure would like to see the tax form 'God' files every ...
Welcoming Ten New Lifetime Members
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Freedom From Religion Foundation is delighted to welcome ten new Lifetime Members. They are: John Courtney, Larry Edwards, David Fuhrman, Herbert Huene, Rovena Kessinger, Emory Lynn, Donna Pittman, Susan Robinson, Ed Susterich, and Jean Thrall, States represented are: ...