National Prayer Breakfast, a troubling flag, abortion rights marches and India
It’s great to be back in the office and observe closely again the myriad activities that the Freedom From Religion Foundation engages in. (FFRF Co-President Dan Barker and I were actually on a two-week tour of India to learn about rationalism and the battle against Hindu nationalism in the country. More on that later.) For […]
The Crusades were a nightmare
Some people think the Crusades were romantic quests by shining knights wearing crimson crosses — but they actually were a nightmare of slaughter, rape and looting. At the 2015 National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama triggered Christian fundamentalist outrage by saying that the Crusaders “committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.” After Pope Urban II […]
Christian nationalism, National Prayer Breakfast, Thomas Paine & Ron Reagan
There have been a lot of exciting things going on at the Freedom From Religion Foundation recently. We are releasing at a special media event next Wednesday a report (crafted by us in collaboration with the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, an unlikely but wonderful partner) on the role that Christian nationalism played in […]
National Prayer Breakfast, abortion rights, Breyer’s replacement, and Thomas Paine
We at the Freedom From Religion Foundation have been immersed in steering folks onto the correct constitutional path. Our constitutional lessons to school boards We successfully tutored three separate school boards around the country to halt their unconstitutional practice of prayers at their meetings. “We salute any school district for taking steps to stay secular […]
Halloween special: the judiciary, Liberty University, Secular Day of the Dead & Ed Asner
As Halloween fast approaches, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is chasing off many unconstitutionally theocratic spectres. This includes shooing away religion from public education. That’s why we’ve filed a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief siding with the state of Maine in its refusal to use taxpayer money to fund religious education. “The state’s decision is […]
A Valentine’s Day missive for Darwin, Ed Asner — and the Trump administration
On Valentine’s Day, we at the Freedom From Religion Foundation are remembering the people who have put us in a love-ly (and not so love-ly) mood this week.
The 68th National Prayer Breakfast should be the last
Our nation should resist “people who use their faith as justification for what they know is wrong.”
Donald Trump, a prayer breakfast, Black History Month — and a debate with God
We learned a day ahead of his State of the Union address that Trump was going to tout highly problematic voucher schemes, and we rushed out a denouncement.
Death row, Trump, Gov. Abbott — and a bit of lightness, too
Some weeks, we delve into somber issues — leavened with occasional levity — and this was one of those weeks here at the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
