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This is personal

  • Melina Cohen

I know what it feels like to be the kid who doesn’t belong, and no young person should have to endure that.

A-OK with Armageddon

  • Melina Cohen

Doomsdayers don’t believe in any future, let alone one that belongs to all of us.

Fired for being an atheist

  • Geoffrey Blackwell

Our Legal Team is firing back — exposing abuses of power and holding rights violators accountable.

Scapegoats under your bed!

  • Melina Cohen

Every generation gets its boogeyman, and there is no scarier scapegoat than the atheist.

It’s a bipartisan problem

  • Nick Fish

And in the wake of the Christian Nationalist movement’s hijacking of our 250th anniversary celebrations this year, we can’t sit idly by while one of the highest ranking members of the Senate gives them more ammunition by repeating a false story.

The Fourth is for the faithless

  • Nick Fish

“Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.”

Do you count?

  • Geoffrey Blackwell

White Christian Nationalists aren’t honoring our past. They’re trapping us in old prejudices and power structures.

What religion were my parents?

  • Nick Fish

We oppose the outsourcing of public responsibilities to religious groups that believe some families are more worthy than others — like mine.  

What’s happening?

  • Nick Fish

From fighting harmful policies to ensuring atheists have access to secular resources, American Atheists is working nationwide to advance religious equality for all.

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