School shootings, Ukraine invasion, clergy abuse, and a special television treat
There’s so much that’s happened over the past week — and so much for us at the Freedom From Religion Foundation to grapple with. “Thoughts and prayers” are not enough for mass shootings and never have been, we said in response to the awful Texas school killings. “Prayer is a way of pretending that you’re […]
Intellectual freedom is a secular issue
“Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.” Heinrich Heine, a 19th century Jewish and German poet, wrote these words in the face of extreme German nationalism. At the time, books that were deemed un-German were tossed into bonfires. His words tragically foretold the Holocaust, in which 6 million European Jews and at […]
Victories, media attention — and to a secular July Fourth
Victories and media coverage — the Freedom From Religion Foundation gathered a lot of both this week.
We ignore pastors’ irresponsible talk at our peril
Irresponsible talk by pastors and true believers has led to outrageous action. We ignore that at our peril.