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Reading Time: 2 minutes Back in October of 2011, Richard Dawkins was scheduled to make an appearance at the Wyndgate Country Club in Rochester Hills, Michigan to promote his new-at-the-time book The Magic of Reality.
In April of 2011, CFI filed a lawsuit against the country club.
Yesterday, it was announced that CFI came out on top:
Reading Time: 2 minutes Egypt has struck a major blow to the fundamental human right to freedom of expression, and unjustly stripped an innocent man of his freedom, as Alber Saber, the 27-year-old atheist activist and blogger, was convicted today of blasphemy and sentenced to three years in prison.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Ottawa Citizen runs a feature each week called “Ask the Religion Experts” in which representatives from religious backgrounds are invited to comment on general religion-related questions. They also ask an atheist to join in so that there’s at least one rational answer in the mix.
This week’s question: What is the greatest obstacle to faith?
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Center for Inquiry has launched a “Campaign for Free Expression” to defend the right to free speech. This brief video showcases the problem: No person should face social or legal punishment simply for speaking about his or her beliefs in public. And no topic should be off limits — especially religion, which has such […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Back in August, five secular organizations — the American Humanist Association, Center for Inquiry, International Humanist and Ethical Union, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, and Secular Coalition for America — met with the U.S. Department of State’s Office of International Religious Freedom. At the meeting, they presented a report on instances of anti-atheist […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is quite an endorsement for the Secular Student Alliance, courtesy of the Real Time with Bill Maher blog: A group called the Secular Student Alliance is starting to get requests from teens who want to start atheist clubs at their high schools. These are kids who happen to believe that life can be lived […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes ***Update 1***: Sinema has won the primary! More updates below. If you want to support her, donate to her campaign! … Arizona State Senator Kyrsten Sinema — an openly bisexual nontheist — appears to be winning her Democratic primary in the state’s 9th Congressional district: Sinema has received an award from the Center for Inquiry […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Ottawa Citizen runs a feature each week called “Ask the Religion Experts.” Representatives from religious (and non-religious) backgrounds are invited to comment on general religion-related question. (So, in other words, there’s one expert.) This week’s question: Are monotheistic religions more prone to violence? You get a lot of No, Jesus Christ calls us to […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes This letter will be sent to Alexander Aan via the Atheist Alliance International. Dear Alexander, Since we know you’re at least somewhat aware of some of the efforts being made on your behalf around the world by folks in the secular movement, I think I can safely assume you’ve been informed of the petition my […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Center for Inquiry’s Ron Lindsay offers some constructive criticism for American Atheists and their latest billboards: One problem I have with the wording on the billboards is that it doesn’t match up with what AA says they’re doing with the billboards. The stated purpose of the billboards is to show “the foolishness of mixing […]
