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This week a tide of reason swept the nation as freethinkers, young and old, came together to embrace a spirit of sense and sanity beginning to wake up the country.
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american humanist association, eddie izzard, freedom from religion foundation, han hills, national mall, richard dawkins, secular student alliance, washington dc
Han Hills is WilmingtonFAVS' humanism and atheism writer. He also loves the Christmas season — sans the whole blessed babe part.
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Standing in front of 3,300 grave markers — representing the number of people who have died in gun violence since December’s massacre in Newtown, Conn. — more than 25 ministers, rabbis and other religious leaders decried as “idolatrous” a society that values guns more than human life.
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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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The UNCW chapter of the Student Atheist Alliance was formed in the fall and attracted about 15–30 members each meeting and hopes to continue next year.
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With the rise of the ‘nones’ – the 20 percent of Americans without a particular spirituality – more couples are looking for wedding celebrants who don’t mind skipping God’s blessing of the ceremony altogether.
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Thank you so much Melody!
I can think of no other person who deserves this award more. Congratulations Amanda!
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Thank you Dr. Rallis, for your fabulous voice! We should do a story sometime!
Thank you for the beautiful article and pictures!
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