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The Rally began with a military ceremony and Pledge of Allegiance, the original pledge without the divisive 1954 addition, "under God."
There are plenty of Atheists in Foxholes, including a substantial portion of FFRF's membership. Thank you for your service and sacrifice.
FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor rallies the crowd and talks about FFRF's legal work (we have 4 full time attorneys on staff to address state church issues and about our new national television ad, which you can view here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEEIBNeIBLY&feature=channel
FFRF was a major sponsor of the Reason Rally and is the largest Atheist/Agnostic/Freethought group in the country. We hope someday you'll join us:
Dan Barker De-baptizes the atheist masses. Get de-baptized today
ffrf.org/shop/certificates/set-of-2-frameable-debaptismal...
A trip to the tiny Hill Country town of Sisterdale, about an hour northwest of San Antonio. Founded in the mid-1800's by German Freethinkers, Sisterdale is just a couple of houses and businesses along the side of the road with just a few dozen residents. The main attraction to the town is the Sister Creek Winery, located in the old cotton gin. Pictures taken Spring 2008. I plan on adding more detailed descriptions in the future.
Christopher Hitchens v. John Lennox
Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama
3 March 2009
(taken from second row w/o a flash - obviously not the best...)
A trip to the tiny Hill Country town of Sisterdale, about an hour northwest of San Antonio. Founded in the mid-1800's by German Freethinkers, Sisterdale is just a couple of houses and businesses along the side of the road with just a few dozen residents. The main attraction to the town is the Sister Creek Winery, located in the old cotton gin. Pictures taken Spring 2008. I plan on adding more detailed descriptions in the future.
Randi's talk discussed, among other things, how easy it is for even very smart people to be fooled, particularly in areas outside of their expertise.
Tim Minchin performing "The Pope Song," a masterpiece of english language songwriting.
FFRF was a big donor to the Reason Rally and helped fund acts like Tim Minchin. Join FFRF today!
Secular Songstress Shelley Segal wows the crowd at the Reason Rally. The night before she played at FFRF's private dinner and did a duet with FFRF Co-President Dan Barker.
The Avatar Identity Research Center and Fracture, the orbital club for freethinkers, genderhackers and psychonauts, presented a joint MechaPlay event on 14 October 2008. The crowd was large and decked out to the cyborg-nines.
FFRF Co-President Dan Barker plays some of his secular music for the crowd. Get it here: ffrf.org/shop/freethought-music/
FFRF was a major sponsor of the Reason Rally and is the largest Atheist/Agnostic/Freethought group in the country. We hope someday you'll join us:
I used Adobe Photoshop to create a Zara shoe advert. When I was researching shoe adverts and campaigns, I discovered Dr. Martens Tough As You campaign which aimed to show how the brands rebellious past continues to influence and empower the next generation of freethinkers. The advert and the magazine as a whole are aimed at the younger generation who seek to find their own individual style through self-expression.
LEMMY KILMISTER + geflügelter Totenkopf - Street Art by Eme Freethinker (@eme_freethinker) am Eingang des Blackland Metal Pub (@blackland_berlin), Lilli-Henoch-Str. 1, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.
Foto: Bernd Sauer-Diete, Mai 2021
Ian Fraser „Lemmy“ Kilmister (* 24. Dezember 1945 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England; † 28. Dezember 2015 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) war ein britischer Rockmusiker, Mitglied der Space-Rock-Band Hawkwind, Gründer der Rockband Motörhead sowie deren Sänger und Bassist.
Get your rally signs here! The "this is what an atheist looks like" sign was incredibly popular. You can get a t-shirt with that slogan here:
A trip to the tiny Hill Country town of Sisterdale, about an hour northwest of San Antonio. Founded in the mid-1800's by German Freethinkers, Sisterdale is just a couple of houses and businesses along the side of the road with just a few dozen residents. The main attraction to the town is the Sister Creek Winery, located in the old cotton gin. Pictures taken Spring 2008. I plan on adding more detailed descriptions in the future.
A trip to the tiny Hill Country town of Sisterdale, about an hour northwest of San Antonio. Founded in the mid-1800's by German Freethinkers, Sisterdale is just a couple of houses and businesses along the side of the road with just a few dozen residents. The main attraction to the town is the Sister Creek Winery, located in the old cotton gin. Pictures taken Spring 2008. I plan on adding more detailed descriptions in the future.
Street Art by Eme Freethinker, Ende Mai 2020.
I CAN'T BREATHE #GeorgeFloyd #IcantBreathe #sayhisname
Der Schwarze George Floyd (* 14. Oktober 1973; † 25. Mai 2020) wurde am 25. Mai 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA durch einen Polizeibeamten getötet. Das einzige Vergehen des jungen Mannes: Er wollte in einem Supermarkt mit einem gefälschten 20 Dollar-Schein bezahlen. Die darauf gerufene Polizei nahm den Mann zu viert mit bis zu ihrem Polizeiwagen. Dort kniete dann der Polizist Derek M. Chauvin über 8 Minuten auf dem Hals von George Floyd, der kurz darauf im Krankenhaus verstarb. George Floyd rief mehrmals „I can’t breathe!“ (Ich kann nicht atmen!), aber weder der Polizist, der auf ihm kniete, noch die drei weiteren Polizisten, die um ihn herumstanden haben ihm geholfen. Der grausame Vorfall wurde bekannt, weil jemand die ganze Szene gefilmt und ins Internet gestellt hatte.
Die Tötung dieses Schwarzen steht in langer trauriger US-Tradition von unbewaffneten Schwarzen, die von Polizeibeamten getötet wurden. Dieser Mord hatte tagelange wütende Aufstände in Minneapolis und anderen US-Städten zur Folge.
Auch in Deutschland gab es schon mehrere Fälle von Tötungen Schwarzer in Polizeigewahrsam, die aber hierzulande nie aufgeklärt wurden, wie z.B. der Fall Oury Jalloh in Dessau.
#GeorgeFloyd #GeorgeFloydProtests #IcantBreathe #sayhisname #saytheirnames #blacklivesmatter #blacklivematters #rassismustötet #berlin #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #rassismus #gedenken #justice4georgefloyd #NoJusticeNoPeace #polizeigewalt #StopKillingBlackPeople #ProsecuteKillerCops
#berlin #streetart #urbanart #mauerpark #graffito #graffiti #art #streetartberlin #berlinstreetart #mural #ilovestreetart #streetartphotography
Jessica Ahlquist, gave a moving speech about how, when others alienated her and spouted messages of hate, FFRF stood by her and gave her support at a private FFRF dinner. Here, she addresses the crowd of "evil little things."
Jessica Ahlquist, gave a moving speech about how, when others alienated her and spouted messages of hate, FFRF stood by her and gave her support at a private FFRF dinner. Here, she addresses the crowd of "evil little things."
Alphonso Taft (November 5, 1810 – May 21, 1891) was the Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant and the founder of an American political dynasty. He was the father of U.S. President William Howard Taft.
Born in Townshend, Vermont, the son of Peter Rawson Taft of the powerful Taft family, he graduated from Yale College in 1833, where he also was a tutor 1835-37. At Yale, he and his classmate William Huntington Russell cofounded Skull and Bones, the preeminent senior society. He subsequently studied law at the Yale Law School, was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1838, moved to Cincinnati in 1839 where he was a member of the Cincinnati City Council, and became one of the most influential citizens of Ohio. He was a member of the boards of trustees of the University of Cincinnati and of Yale College.
One of Taft's opinions as a judge, against Bible-reading in public schools, remains meaningful today. Several other local Unitarians, including members of his church, were actors in the drama that led to a landmark decision about church and state.
Since 1829, when the public school system in Cincinnati was founded, daily reading of the King James Bible and the singing of Protestant hymns had been the custom in each schoolroom. This went unchallenged until Archbishop John Baptist Purcell objected on behalf of the thousands of Catholic children in the system. By the late 1860s Archbishop Purcell's protest had been seconded by Rabbis Isaac M. Wise and Max Lilienthal on behalf of Cincinnati's substantial population of Reform Jews. The Board of Education was divided over proposals to end the practice. The only two clergymen on the Board were Unitarian ministers, the ultra-liberal Thomas Vickers of First Congregational Church and conservative Amory Dwight Mayo of the Church of the Redeemer. The former was the leading spokesman for the Unitarians and for Cincinnati's large number of freethinkers; and the latter was equally prominent as an advocate for the pro Bible-reading forces. It is a supreme irony that the leading spokesmen on this contentious issue, in one of the most religiously heterogeneous cities in the country, were two Unitarian ministers. Their combined congregations made up less than two-tenths of one percent of the city's population!
In 1869 the Board of Education voted in favor of excluding Bible-reading from the public schools. Two days after, a large group of prominent citizens successfully petitioned Judge Bellamy Storer, of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, to issue a temporary injunction preventing the Board from implementing its decision. A few weeks later, a trial was held before a three-judge panel of the Superior Court to decide whether the injunction should be vacated or made permanent. The entire controversy and the ensuing trial were covered intensively by the nation's leading newspapers. Two of the three judges were leading conservative Protestant laymen. The third was Alphonso Taft. Among the anti-Bible-reading attorneys was former judge George Hoadly, Cincinnati's leading corporate attorney, a future governor of Ohio, and a longtime member of First Congregational Church. The outcome of the trial was a permanent injunction on the Board of Education allowing continued Bible-reading in the schools.
Taft wrote a significant dissenting opinion on the Bible in the Schools Case. "I can not doubt," he wrote, "that the use of the Bible with the appropriate singing, provided for by the old rule, and as practiced under it, was and is sectarian. It is Protestant worship. And its use is a symbol of Protestant supremacy in the schools, and as such offensive to Catholics and to Jews. They have a constitutional right to object to it, as a legal preference given by the state to the Protestant sects, which is forbidden by the Constitution. . . . When the Board of Education, therefore, which represents the civil power of the State in the schools, finds objection made to the use of the Protestant Bible and Protestant singing of Protestant hymns, on conscientious grounds, and concludes to dispense with the practice in the schools, it is no just ground to charge on the Board hostility to the Bible, or to the Protestant religion, or to religion in general. The Bible is not banished, nor is religion degraded or abused. The Board has simply aimed to free the common schools from any just conscientious objections, by confining them to secular instruction, and moral and intellectual training."
Although Taft's eloquent dissent was of no immediate avail, the controversy continued until the Ohio Supreme Court reversed the ruling in 1873. Its unanimous decision upheld Taft's dissent. This remains an important precedent in Establishment of Religion law.