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The passing of Christopher Hitchens, at the far too early age of 62, leaves an empty chair at the dinner table of life which no one will ever be able to completely fill. As we mourn his passing, it is vital that we remember the spirit in which he lived.
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Han Hills is WilmingtonFAVS' humanism and atheism writer. He also loves the Christmas season — sans the whole blessed babe part.
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What better start could there be to this year's American Atheists Convention than a national rally on the Washington Mall, which I wrote about in part one of this series. This was a golden achievement and served as an obvious start to their annual convention in Bethesda, running from the end of the rally on March 24 to March 26.
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Old friends and new hearts. After the Washington D.C. Reason Rally and American Atheists Convention, it had been a long week for the Freethought movement. And many expected low spirits and low turnout at the Rock Beyond Belief concert at Fort Bragg on Saturday (March 31.) They were proved resoundingly wrong.
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A self-educated attorney and atheist, Ingersoll was a Victorian-era rock star who could pack theaters from Texas to New York with people who came from hundreds of miles around to hear “The Great Agnostic” lecture against religion.
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The lecture will explore how Russian Communists tried to create a total state of political religion, but traditional faiths still survived.
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A resolution aiming to give North Carolina the freedom to defy the Constitution and establish its own religion won’t get a vote in the N.C. General Assembly. But implications from a piece of legislation that aimed to disavow the First Amendment's hold on the establishment of religion in the Old North State could be heard for a while, say law experts in the state.
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