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February 2012

To Bash or Not to Bash

Date: 28-02-2012 /
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by Eddie Tabash

Some of us are bogging down in a debate over whether the promotion of secular humanism should involve "bashing" religion, or whether we should only focus on presenting humanism in a positive light. The answer is that both are necessary components of the secular humanist message, depending on the individual circumstances of each encounter, each audience, and each forum.  Read more about To Bash or Not to Bash→

How Jesus Got a Life

Date: 28-02-2012 /
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Figure 1. As the earth's axis slowly shifts its orientation in space, it traces out the surface of a double cone in space. Because of the axial wandering, the points where the celestial equator (the projection of the earth's equator onto the celestial sphere) intersects the ecliptic (the apparent path made by the sun against the background of "fixed stars") move also, shifting clockwise around the ecliptic as seen by the northern hemisphere. It takes 25,800 years for the points of the intersection to move all the way around the ecliptic. 

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Red Herring Rushdie II

Date: 28-02-2012 /
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Red Herring Rushdie II

February 23
In France, Cardinal Albert Decourtray, head of the French Roman Catholic church, noted, "Once again believers have been offended in their faith." Elsewhere in France, the daily newspaper Liberation and the two weeklies, L'Eventement du Jeudi and Le Vouvel Observatuer, announced jointly that they would each publish a chapter of Rushdie's novel on February 23. 
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The Black Atheists of The Harlem Renaissance

Date: 28-02-2012 /
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by John G. Jackson

The following is from a talk given by Prof. Jackson at the 1984 American Atheists Convention. Read more about The Black Atheists of The Harlem Renaissance→

Who are the freethinkers?

Date: 28-02-2012 /
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    Rejection of religion ran the gamut of great thinkers. Read more about Who are the freethinkers?→

James Lick

Date: 28-02-2012 /
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James Lick was born on August 25th, 1796 at Fredericksburg (Lebanon County). Pennsylvania. His grandfather had been an emigrant from Germany who served in the War of Independence, especially at Valley Forge, and who lived to be 104 years old.  Read more about James Lick →

Robert Owen

Date: 28-02-2012 /
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Atheist, Philanthropist, Labor Reformer  Read more about Robert Owen→

A Declaration of Mental Independence, by Robert Owen

Date: 28-02-2012 /
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Charles Watts

Date: 28-02-2012 /
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by Madalyn Murray O'Hair Read more about Charles Watts→

Christianity, Its Nature and Influence on Civilisation by Charles Watts

Date: 28-02-2012 /
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Author: admin / Tag: atheism, History
Atheism has a long, proud history of publishing and speech-making. Unfortunately, however, much of that history is inaccessible to modern readers, surviving only in rare booklets, books, and pamphlets housed in scattered libraries and private collections. The American Atheist attempts to make some of that literature more available to modern Atheists by reprinting essays by yesterday's \Masters of Atheism.\ These reprints are produced courtesy of Charles E.
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