Texas Board of Education re-writes history

Thomas Jefferson

Here’s the intro to an article in today’s New York Times, Texas Approves Curriculum Revised by Conservatives,
After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday voted to approve a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning [...]

Open Flower Fridays

It’s a bit early but signs of Spring are all around us…

An early sign of Spring

Allow me to demon-strate

I just finished watching Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons last night.  I guess this is a spoiler, but the bad guys win in the end.  I kid, I kid.  The Catholic church survives a huge, elaborate conspiracy devised by one of their own in an attempt to bring their religion onto an even footing with [...]

Hyper-Rational-Process

It is often accused of rationality (or more specifically, rational people) that it is inflexible and uncreative.  I have always known this to be untrue instinctively, but have not found a way to express my disagreement until now.
I share with you Joshua Prince-Ramus, the semi-famous architect of the Seattle Library.  (I say “semi-famous” because I [...]

FFW Goals for 2010

Hi everyone.  In some weird twist of fate, I have become FreeThought Fort Wayne’s second President.  I have already been helped by getting Joel as our new VP and Sandy as our new Secretary.  I expect they will both fill in admirably for the upcoming year.  Our first President, Andy Diekroger has assumed the Treasurer [...]

Join us for Chinese food on Christmas Day!

[ December 25, 2009; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ]
I love going to Chinese restaurants on Christmas day.  They are always so busy and it is becoming a silly tradition for me.  So why not share the experience with all of our heathen brethren and make it more enjoyable?

For those of you who would like to get together and are able to break from [...]

On Purpose

The desire to develop a purpose and/or meaning to one’s life is not a necessary requirement to living that life.  Even if life has no meaning, it does not mean you don’t get to live it.  All 7 billion of us have already hit the genetic lottery by simply being born into the dominant species [...]

Open Forum Friday: Freethought Fort Wayne in the future

This Week’s Topic
I was going to talk about atheism and skepticism, and if one requires another, but I think I’ll wait until next week. It is a good topic, and I want to cite a few more articles before I open it to the floor. This week’s topic is one we’ve discussed before, but is [...]

New Event – Lunch Group

This coming Tuesday 12/15 at 1 p.m. will be the first ever lunch meetup for FreeThought Fort Wayne at the Dash-In, 814 S. Calhoun St. (Click here for a map)
This is the first event of its kind, but hopefully we will be scheduling these on a regular basis.
The Dash-In also has a page on facebook [...]

UPDATE: Uganda, Maddow, and Praying Away the Gay

MSNBC has done a great public service by letting the people at the Rachel Maddow Show practice actual journalism.
This video is important because it shows just how dangerous pseudoscience (or in layman’s terms, outright quackery) really is. Richard Cohen has written a book that has had the effect of igniting an attempted genocide of gays, [...]