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Atheist Group Allegedly Convince School Board to Remove Prayer Before Meetings
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Lauren McKeithen
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A Connecticut school board has supposedly removed prayers before board meetings after a complaint from an atheist organization and a “concerned community member.” CT Insider reported that the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), an atheist activist group, contacted the Enfield School District to complain about the prayers allegedly routinely unfolding before meetings. Enfield’s Board of…
Atheists Now Nearly as Numerous as Evangelicals
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
What percentage of people in the United States claim to have no religion? If you guessed the number is small but vocal, think again. According to the 2018 General Social Survey, a biennial project run by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, the religious “nones” are now every bit as numerous…
‘Science Does Not Kill God’: Physicist Marcelo Gleiser Awarded Prize For Work Blending Science and Religion
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
Militant atheists and religious zealots alike have long peddled the idea that science and religion are incompatible. Prizewinning theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, however, takes intense issue with that statement. In fact, he recently won the annual Templeton Prize for his work debunking the idea. Gleiser is far from the only scientist to disagree with the…
Pope Suggests It’s Better to Be an Atheist Than to Live Like a Hypocritical Christian
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
Everyone knows that one person in their church who praises God loudly on Sunday and then promptly forgets how to live a Christian life when they walk out the door. They talk about how people should be charitable and give to the poor, and then they throw out half of their meal when they eat…
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