Posted on August 27th, 2009 by armineh
A Kentucky Circuit Court ruled today that the state Office of Homeland Security violated the separation of church and state when it erected a plaque calling upon”Almighty God” to protect citizens from “acts of war or terrorism.”
In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Kentucky legislature created the state office, and ordered the [...]
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Posted on August 27th, 2009 by armineh
A Kentucky Circuit Court ruled today that the state Office of Homeland Security violated the separation of church and state when it erected a plaque calling upon”Almighty God” to protect citizens from “acts of war or terrorism.”
In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Kentucky legislature created the state office, and ordered the [...]
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Posted on August 26th, 2009 by armineh
In an extraordinary decision, Judge Camarata denied the Burkes’ right to the child because of their lack of belief in a Supreme Being. Despite the Burkes’ “high moral and ethical standards,” he said, the New Jersey state constitution declares that “no person shall be deprived of the inestimable privilege of worshiping Almighty God in a [...]
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Posted on August 23rd, 2009 by armineh
Atheists are notorious for our lack of organization.
The new United Coalition of Reason is a national organization that works to raise the visibility of local groups in the community of reason. The idea is that local groups stay local and organize with other local groups within their local area.
To read more and see Fred Edword’s [...]
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Posted on August 15th, 2009 by armineh
Before we decide that a behavior is innate and wired into our neurons, it would be a good idea to examine whether it withstands changes in our circumstances. If the new neuroscience has taught us anything, it’s that the lives we lead can reach into, and change, our very brain circuitry.
For complete article see:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/211746
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Posted on August 4th, 2009 by armineh
Gays are perverts and child molesters, or so I believed as a high-school student some 50 years ago. This embarrasses me, but at least I have nothing serious to confess about harming gays, through word or deed. I had never met one, or so I thought, which only means that none of the people I [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2009 by armineh
The Council of Australian Humanists (CAHS) has joined a growing volume of voices calling for the establishment of a Charities Commission in Australia. CAHS said it is incomprehensible Australia does not have a Charities Commission to oversight the huge charity sector in Australia when (1) the Charities Definition Inquiry of 2001 recommended a Commission (2) [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2009 by armineh
The Council of Australian Humanists (CAHS) meeting in convention, last month in Adelaide, resolved unanimously that: ‘CAHS calls on Federal and State governments to withhold support from all future sales exhibitions of armaments.’
The modern Humanist movement has since its foundation supported and lobbied for peace. We acknowledge that defence is necessary but consider that encouragement [...]
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