Archive for the '-Atheism' Category
Saturday, May 12th, 2012
Colorado highlighted (Photo credit: Wikipedia) From the Denver Post: The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that governors’ proclamations of a state Day of Prayer violate the Constitution’s provisions for religious liberty. When the state sponsors the particular religious practice of prayer, the three-judge panel found, it sends a message that those who pray [...]
Filed under: -Atheism, -Church and State, -Free Exercise of Religion, -Freedom of Religion, -Politics & Religion, Atheist Agenda, Constitutional Rights, Court Decisions, National Day of Prayer
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
(Photo by Brent Harris/WORLD on Campus) An atheist student group set up a booth on a Texas university campus offering to exchange pornography for Bibles and other religious materials including Qurans. According to Kyle Bush, the president of the student group- Atheist Agenda: "The point is not to hand out porn, but rather the primary [...]
Filed under: -Atheism, -Education, -Freedom of Religion, -Freedom of Speech, Attacks on Christianity, Culture & Religion, USA
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Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Did the 9/11/01 attacks end up changing some of our attitudes about religion? In an article on my Apologetica page I make the point that it did in at least two significant ways: 1. Islam in America came out of the closet 2.Atheists also came out of the closet <<Read my conclusions on my Apologetica [...]
Filed under: -Atheism, -Freedom of Religion, 9/11/01, Culture & Religion, Islam
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
American Atheists filed a lawsuit on Monday to have the iconic ‘Ground Zero’ Cross removed from the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City. The World Trade Center cross is made up of two intersecting steel beams found intact in the midst of the rubble created by the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks. The cross was [...]
Filed under: -Atheism, -Church and State, 9/11/01, Lawsuits
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Monday, May 16th, 2011
(Getty Images via @daylife) British scientist Stephen Hawking who is considered one of the smartest people in the world has come out and called heaven a "fairy story" for people afraid of the dark. In an interview with The Guardian (UK Newspaper ) on Monday, Hawking said that his views were affected and influenced [...]
Filed under: -Atheism, Afterlife, Materialism, Theology
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Saturday, November 27th, 2010
The American Atheists Org. put up a billboard coming into NY City (on route 495 at Kennedy Blvd on the NJ side of the Lincoln Tunnel) with the message: You KNOW it’s a Myth This Season, Celebrate REASON! And so the battle over Christmas begins. Here’s the reason they spent a huge amount of money [...]
Filed under: -Atheism, -Christmas, War on Christmas
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
(Capitol Visitor Center via Wikipedia) A federal court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit to eliminate the National Motto –“In God We Trust” and the Pledge of Allegiance from being displayed in the US Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C. US District Judge William M. Conley ruled that the atheist group-Freedom from Religion Foundation did not [...]
Filed under: -Atheism, -Church and State, -Freedom of Religion, -Politics & Religion, Court Decisions, Culture & Religion, Lawsuits, Toleration
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