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The Reason Rally took place on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Saturday, March 24, 2012. It was sponsored by many of the country’s largest and most influential secular organizations.
The Reason Rally took place on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Saturday, March 24, 2012. It was sponsored by many of the country’s largest and most influential secular organizations.
Special guest speaker Lori Lipman Brown, executive director of the Secular Coalition for America. She is the first lobbyist in history hired specifically to represent the interests of nontheists in Washington, is traveling from D.C. just to meet with our group. We'll hear all about the interesting world of Washington, and it promises to be a very interesting evening. Lori is also a regular on television news shows .
The Secular Coalition for America - A Washington-based lobbying organization for atheists, humanists, freethinkers, and other nontheistic Americans. Our mission is to increase the visibility and respectability of nontheistic viewpoints in the United States and to protect and strengthen the secular character of our government as the best guarantee of freedom for all.
The outer fabric is rich upholstery weight brocade in cielo blue, café au lait and espresso browns. (Can you tell that I am trying to cut down on coffee?) There is a bit of ecru as well. Elegant medallions, fleur de lis, and leafy scrolls.
The lining material is a map of the world drawn in ecru on milk chocolate brown.
It measures H 14 in x L 13½ in (36 cm x L 34 cm). The straps measure 26 in (66cm).
"Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir."
-Carl Sagan, A Demon Haunted World.
The Reason Rally took place on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Saturday, March 24, 2012. It was sponsored by many of the country’s largest and most influential secular organizations.
In 1976, Ann Nicol Gaylor coined the popular secular and atheist saying “Nothing fails like prayer." It sums up the failure of petitionary praying.
Wall art and prints: Nothing Fails Like Prayer
To license this image: ALAMY