Marilyn Westfall | August 31, 2007

The Pierced Lady
Waiting for the shuttle bus into San Francisco, the woman in leather shivered. Her sandy hair was tucked behind ears upholstered with gold rings and studs. On her neck, where her collar was short, climbed a tattoo’s red ink of wings or flames. Her amber eyes blinked as she excused her breath: “I [...]

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Jay R. Strisik | August 30, 2007

An Original Poem by
Jay R. Strisik
O Ingersoll your crystalline words are stilled,
And museumed away from daily discourse,
While dishonest men crush virtue for power
And invoke deities and fear to confuse. 
 
O Ingersoll freedom is weeping,
Truth sullied by grubby hands
Of liars and purloiners of sense,    
Misers in doling aid to ill and needy.
 

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Chuck Lesher | August 29, 2007

Dearest Family and Friends,
At a point in my life, it became necessary to honestly examine the religious dogma presented to me as fact, and upon finding it lacking, throw off its shackles and assume personal responsibility for my actions. A decent respect to the opinions of family and friends requires a declaration of the causes [...]

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Michael W. Jones | August 28, 2007

When Brian was young, he had looked at the moon as a magical place. Now, he saw the cool serenity of the lunar surface and the efforts that it had taken mankind to reach its surface. Although not even an amateur astronomer, Brian had always enjoyed the night sky. It had been a place of [...]

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Michael W. Jones | August 27, 2007

Atheists rarely understand that their lack of faith can occasionally be challenged by perfectly normal life events. I have come to think that those challenges do occur. Further, I believe that those occasions correspond almost exactly, in situation and intensity, to the tests of faith experienced by the religious. In short, I believe that regardless [...]

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Marilyn Westfall | August 23, 2007

I would recommend, for those who have not yet read it, a biography of Madalyn Murray O’Hair: Ann Rowe Seaman’s America’s Most Hated Woman. O’Hair herself reveled in that appellation and used it to portray herself as the ultimate Outsider, a communist, freethinking female and victim of a capitalistic Christian empire. By doing so she [...]

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Marilyn Westfall | August 20, 2007

FRANK ZINDLER is Editor of American Atheists Press. A former university biology instructor, he is also a professional linguist with a specialty involving ancient languages. Zindler is the author of numerous articles and several books on Atheism and related history, including a special annotated edition of Part Three of The Age of Reason by Thomas [...]

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