May 6th is the National Concerted Effort of Telepathic Communication with the Creator of the Universe for No Apparent Reason Day

The Freedom From Religion Foundation sent me a courteous reminder that this Thursday is the National Day of Prayer.  Now, I’ve never been one to care too much about prayer.  It seems harmless enough, especially when it is done for personal reasons.  Even public displays of piety aren’t usually enough to get me riled up. [...]

WTF is wrong with Utah?

*****For more information on this topic and other issues of ‘Women and Freethought’ tune in to tonights live Dial-an-Atheist for a conversation between Freethought Fort Wayne’s own Rae Surface and Ashley Martin, Vice President of Campus Atheists and Agnostics of IPFW. The show can be seen tonight at 7pm on local access tv (Comcast 57, [...]

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 [...]

Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks at the University of Wisconsin

Ayaan Hirsi Ali spoke recently at the University of Wisconsin as a part of their Distinguished Lecture series. If you are not familiar with Ayaan Hirsi Ali she was born in Somalia, is a former Muslim, escaped an arranged marriage, became a member of Dutch Parliament and is an outspoken critic of Islam. She is [...]

You big meanie!

Here’s a quick article from foreignpolicy.com that has Sam Harris going all Modest Proposal-like on Karen Armstrong.
I like Ms. Armstrong.  She is extremely knowledgeable about religion and seems to represent, to me at least, what I think most people believe “True Religion” (copyright pending) stands for.
She apparently believes all of the extremists and fundamentalists of [...]

Open Forum Friday: The Fort Hood Shootings

This Week’s Topic
(Written by Jake!)
Welcome to the next edition of our popular and sometimes controversial series Open Forum Friday.
This week we continue the trend by asking for your thoughts about The Fort Hood, Texas military base killings purportedly committed by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, US Army.
This horrific event raises lots of questions.  We’ve yet to [...]

The Atheist and the Preschool

In an attempt get our 3-year-old daughter, Sophia, ready for school, my husband and I wanted to enroll her in preschool.  Being the godless commies that we are, we wanted her in a secular preschool.  No prayer, no songs about Jesus, Allah, or Moroni, no church services or religious classes.
Of course, that is all well [...]

John Loftus will present on “The Problem of Evil” for our Sept. Meeting

[ September 9, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Former evangelical minister and apologist, John W. Loftus, will be presenting to FFW again on one of my favorite chapters in his book, the problem of evil (and pain).

Texas Public School Requirements: Reading, Writing and the Bible

The Texas legislature passed a bill (80(R) HB 1287) in 2007 requiring all public school districts to offer “elective courses on the Bibles Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and New Testament and their impact on the history and literature of western civilization” starting in the 2009-2010 school year.
Prior to this there have been a number of [...]

Will Worship for Food

THIS article at change.org caught my eye recently.

It’s an issue that has concerned me for some time. The relationship between those in need and those who can provide help is an unbalanced one to say the least; Those with the power often seeing themselves as justified to have conditions attached to their “charity.” When [...]