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FFW Top Ten Blog Posts of 2008

It’s New Year’s Day which means all over the internet you’ll be seeing top ten lists from bloggers of their most popular posts from the past year. Why should we be any different? Well, we are a little bit different in that this blog didn’t exist until last year. In fact, the first blog post here didn’t even appear until February 27th and that was just an announcement of our upcoming meeting. So really, this blog has only been active for ten out of the past twelve months. And if I recall correctly, FreeThought Fort Wayne itself didn’t even exist until late in 2007.

Yet we’ve come a long way in the past few months. We’ve produced 14 great episodes of our public access telvision show The Enlightenment Show, featured talks by author John Loftus of the popular blog Debunking Christianity as well as biblical scholar and author Robert M. Price. We’ve grown as an organization, had a variety of meetups in addition to our regular monthly meetings, developed a constitution and we’re about to elect officers. Additionally, we’ve taken this blog from nothing to almost 110,000 visitors, thanks to a couple of very popular stories and a couple of links from the most popular science blogger on Earth, PZ Myers.

So before we move on to bigger and better things in 2009, here’s a look back the most viewed posts of 2008.

• # 10 Did the American Physical Society reverse its stance on global warming?
• # 09 Congressman Mark Souder says his highlight of the year was being on Ben Stein’s “Expelled.”
• # 08 Repeal Indiana’s Sectarian and Ineffective Blue Laws
• # 07 You only think you need more sleep
• # 06 Humanist Symposium #25
• # 05 Walking with Dinosaurs Live
• # 04 Robert Price to speak for FreeThought Fort Wayne
• # 03 John Loftus’ Speech to FreeThought Fort Wayne (Audio)
• # 02 From altar boy to atheist: a coming out story
• # 01 The score is now… Flying Spaghetti Monster:1 Fred Phelps:0

And there you have it. Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church are always good for a big laugh, although I’ve got to say Mark Souder might have been more of a contender if he had made his ridiculous remarks earlier in the year. Of course, Andy Welfle’s deconversion story is not to be missed. 2008. What a year. And for FreeThought Fort Wayne, 2009 is only going to be better. No, strike that. It’s going to be fantastic!

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