Combating state mischief, organizing events, raising awareness & creating media waves

We at Freedom From Religion Foundation this week grappled, as we usually do, with an assortment of matters — and got a good amount of attention in the media while doing so.
Keeping church and state separate does not stifle religious freedom

A recent article by a creationist hack for the National Review (the flagship conservative publication) preposterously argues that Canada is stifling religious freedom and that we are headed in the same direction.
No lordy, no lordy, look who’s turned 40!

FFRF began as a national organization four decades ago this week! Even as we enter what would be human middle age, we show no signs of slowing down.
We tackle so many different things

We tackle so many different things here every week at the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
An atheist shoots a commercial at creationist Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter

A behind-the-scenes look at the atheist commercial shot in the hear of this creationist stronghold. It is a monstrosity. A $100 million lie, directed at children. What better place to show the importance of FFRF’s work than this taxpayer-funded monument to ignorance?
No public handouts for discriminatory Kentucky ark park

On Feb. 3, Answers in Genesis announced that it intends to file a federal discrimination lawsuit against the state of Kentucky. The threat comes in response to a December decision by the state’s Department of Tourism and Development to reject an application from Ark Encounter, a proposed biblical theme park and subsidiary of Answers in […]
If Noah could build his ark without the help of the Kentucky government, why can’t Ham?
“And God said unto Noah, seek out a $62 million municipal bond offering.” Genesis 6:14-21 describes the instructions given by God to Noah to build an ark and stock it with food and animals before the great flood. While not quite up to Ikea assembly manual standards, God was still quite specific about the end […]
Creationism FAQ

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” ― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871) Evolution is the scientific theory that explains Earth’s wide variety of species and […]