Read More GO Humanity I never thought that I’d be unhoused. When you are disabled, you are presented with a series of hoops to jump through. Applications for social security benefits, SNAP (food stamps), and Medicaid. Section 8 lists are closed in most places—they aren’t even accepting new applicants. When I first started jumping through […]
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Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson continues to embarrass the nation with his intemperate and ignorant remarks, contends the Freedom From Religion Foundation. His latest contribution to dummying down the country is to suggest that grade school students shouldn’t
A little over a year ago, amid the COVID pandemic, the AHA Center for Education offered a detailed course in humanism via Zoom. Presented in four two-hour sessions spread across June 2021, it provided a solid background in the basic ideas central to humanism, the history of humanist thought, techniques of critical thinking and scientific
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Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation strongly condemns as unconstitutional and irresponsible a $1.5 million budget earmark in South Carolina to help start up a Christian school. Christian Learning Centers of Greenville, which has indoctrinated public school students through release-time bible
Read More Secular Coalition for America The coming months are full of iconic celebrations of both life and death. We’ll see signs of harvest, hear talk of superstitions surrounding black cats and the number 13 (even though the next Friday the 13th isn’t until January 2023), and get swept up in the fantastical as pop
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Read More Society for Humanistic Judaism This is a guest post by Marlene Cohen, SHJ Board Secretary and Chair of the Youth Education Committee. SHJ starts each board meeting with a board member reflecting on SHJ’s mission. Marlene started the August 20 Board Meeting with the
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Read More Atheist Republic In February 2019, two major newspapers in Texas released the findings of a year-long study on sexual abuse within Southern Baptist churches. The report revealed that over the last 20 years, more than 700 cases have been filed. The church reacted by bringing in the investigative firm, Guidepost Solutions, which reported
Read More Atheist Republic On July 20, in the district of Jalore, Rajasthan, a Dalit (Lower-Caste) student studying in the third grade drank from a pot of water that allegedly belonged to an upper caste school teacher. This made the teacher so furious that he thrashed the child and needed to be hospitalized. On August
Read More Atheist Republic Militants fired at two civilians, both members of the minority Kashmiri Pandit Community, in Chotipora village of the Shopian district, where one died and another was injured. Police believe it to be another case of targeted killings in Jammu & Kashmir last week. #Terrorists fired upon civilians in an apple orchard
Read More Atheist Republic UPDATE: The case of Maldivian human rights activist and free-thinker Mohamed Rusthum Mujuthaba, convicted and charged with “Blasphemy,” has finally reached a conclusion. Although he was set free, Mujuthaba and many who support him are still concerned for his life and well-being. Mujuthaba, also known by his pseudonym Rusthum Russo on
