There is a battle raging in America over public displays of religion and our religious heritage. We have been covering these skirmishes for some time now on this blog. Crosses on public lands have become the most obvious targets particularly war memorials with religious quotes and themes. Then at Christmas time the battle heats up [...]

           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 [...]

(Image Credit: WPRO) From the Chippewa Herald: An estimated 1,500 people _ many of them veterans _ turned out Wednesday in the Rhode Island city of Woonsocket to defend a war memorial topped with a cross whose constitutionality is being challenged by an atheist group. Speaking before a crowd of people bearing crosses of their [...]

Atheists in Polk County Florida recently scrubbed away a ‘blessing’ placed on a major highway a year ago by a group of area religious leaders. A group of Christians leaders called Polk Under Prayer (PUP) had prayed over the major highway coming into their county and had anointed it with consecrated oil. The Christian prayer [...]

The infamous hacker group ‘Anonymous’ has now declared war on Christianity and proclaimed that religion is a “sickness.” Hackers claiming to be members of  "Anonymous" took down three church websites on March 2 and replaced the main page in each with a clip from atheist Richard Dawkins along with a statement calling religion a sickness.”: [...]

                   (Image via Wikipedia) MADISON (WKOW) — On Sunday, the group Wisconsin Family Action put up a nativity scene of the birth of Jesus in the Capitol rotunda. Wednesday, an atheist group responded with a much different nativity scene. It has the same setup: wisemen, a baby in a manger, angels, but its certainly not [...]

(Image: Al Schell/Courier-Post)                            (Image: CBS News) A Christmas banner across Main Street in Pitman, New Jersey has an atheist group in fits trying to get it taken down claiming that it violates the Constitution. The banner in question reads:  "Keep Christ in Christmas" It is sponsored by the Knights of Columbus (A Catholic fraternal org.) [...]