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Atheist PAC makes first list of political endorsements
Religion News Service
Atheist PAC makes first list of political endorsements. Fredreka Schouten / USA Today | Dec 18, 2013 | 1 Comment. (RNS) A political action committee that bills itself as a nontheist PAC announced its first slate of endorsements on Tuesday (Dec. 17 ...
Atheist PAC Announces First Slate Of EndorsementsHuffington Post

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Atheist PAC makes first list of political endorsements
Washington Post
A political action committee that bills itself as a nontheist PAC announced its first slate of endorsements on Tuesday (Dec. 17), backing four House candidates and two state lawmakers. The Freethought Equality Fund said it supports politicians ...
Atheist PAC Announces First Slate Of EndorsementsHuffington Post

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Rejected Atheist Ads Will Run in Vancouver Metro
Christian Post
The Centre for Inquiry Canada announced Monday that its pro-atheist billboards will adorn two bus shelters in downtown Vancouver as well as a billboard in the city of Burnaby thanks to the help of CBS Outdoor, a billboard company that has agreed to run ...

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Matha MacCallum Says Atheist Sign Is 'Nasty'
News Hounds
So while his network claims that there is a "war on Christmas," his network wages a war on atheists, particularly those who have the audacity to put up signs which Fox and its right wing Christian audience find offensive. While the atheists have very ...
It's OK to wish an atheist a merry ChristmasColdwater Daily Reporter
Project 21 Members Talk Christmas Cheer and JeersAmy Ridenour's National Center Blog (blog)

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I don’t think I’ve ever met one of these face to face: an unapologetic libertarian fanatic who denies the existence of poverty, and claims that private charity would take care of it if it did exist. And at the same time, he’s stupid enough to voluntarily allow himself to be interviewed for the Daily Show! Oh, right, those two things are not contradictions.

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Atheist group tells Raw Story it's defiant in face of Republican lawmaker's ...
Raw Story
The group American Atheists, Inc. is simultaneously outraged and bemused at a spate of attacks by a New York Republican state senator. The lawmaker is trying to organize a boycott of New York City's Times Square while starting a petition to shut down a ...
He Went There: NY Lawmaker Links Atheist Billboard to HolocaustMediaite
New York State Senator Petitions For Times Square Boycott As Atheists Fire BackCrossmap

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About those atheist churches
Hutchinson News
The ad was followed by the creed of the First Church of Atheism: "Nothing exists besides natural phenomena. Thought is merely a function of those natural phenomena. Death is complete, and irreversible. We have faith solely in humankind, nature, and the ...
The Good of Believing In GodChristian Post
There are no winners in the Christmas billboard warsDeath and Taxes

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Because here and now, in this shining moment of time, the Chthucken has been invented.

I could weep. Just a few years ago, I could have had the glory of bringing this out to serve the family on Christmas day.

Fox News has been promoting this strange new sin: the failure to say “Merry Christmas”. Some woman who was raising money for the Salvation Army — an organization for which I have absolutely no sympathy, but that still doesn’t warrant assault — was struck for saying "Happy Holidays". Kristina Vindiola said she was ringing a bell outside the Walmart to raise money for the charity when a woman took exception to her saying "Happy Holidays," KNXV-TV, Pheonix, reported Tuesday. "The lady looked at me," said Vindiola. "I thought she was going to put money in the kettle. She came up to me and said, ‘Do you believe in God?’ And she says, ‘You’re supposed to say Merry Christmas,’ and that’s when she hit me." The Christmas War is taking an interesting turn. The Christians are going to battle it out among themselves over who is the most pious, while the atheists stand by the side deploring the whole silly shenanigans. But then, that’s what Christians have done best, historically.

Hip-hop group Atheist releases solid album full of throwback beats, references
Daily Herald
Once again I find myself in an unsuspected place — metaphorically. I'll explain. I greatly prefer music that has a form of instrument that is found in a standard rock and roll band: Guitar, bass, drums or other stringed instruments. I like brassy ...

Christian Post
About those atheist churches
Hutchinson News (blog)
The ad was both disconcerting and intriguing: "Become an ordained minister in the First Church of Atheism. Officiate at marriages, funerals and commitment ceremonies. Ordination is free of charge." The ad was followed by the creed of the First Church ...
There are no winners in the Christmas billboard warsDeath and Taxes
The Good of Believing In GodChristian Post

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Natural History Museum Removes 'God's Creatures' Plaque Following Atheist ...
Christian Post
The Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles, Calif., has removed a donor's plaque referencing "God's creatures" after receiving a complaint from an evolution professor and outspoken proponent of atheism. The museum's Nature Lab previously included a ...
Museum Removes 'God's Creatures' Quote From ExhibitTheBlaze.com

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Creation Museum's Ken Ham Says Atheists Went 'Ballistic' After Fox Interview
Christian Post
Creation Museum and Answers in Genesis CEO and President Ken Ham called atheists "intolerant" following their criticism of his recent interview with Fox and Friends host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, where he stood up for his beliefs and commented on atheist ...

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Rep. Carolyn Tomei endorsed by atheist, humanist PAC
OregonLive.com
Carolyn Tomei endorsed by atheist, humanist PAC. tomei.JPG. Rep. Carolyn Tomei, D-Milwaukie, was first elected to the Oregon House in 2000. (Don Ryan/Associated Press). Print · Yuxing Zheng | [email protected] By Yuxing Zheng ...
Atheist PAC makes endorsements for CongressDetroit Free Press

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Atheist PAC makes endorsements for Congress
USA TODAY
A political action committee that bills itself as a "non-theist" PAC announced its first slate of endorsements Tuesday, backing four House candidates and two state lawmakers. The Freethought Equality Fund said it supports politicians committed to ...
Rep. Carolyn Tomei endorsed by atheist, humanist PACOregonLive.com

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The web has been resounding with a mighty echoing “WTF?” — David Brooks has written another column in the New York Times, and it’s weird, even for Brooks. He’s sneering at “Thought Leaders”, apparently this new generation of pundits who are beneath his contempt. At first I thought maybe it was entirely autobiographical, and that he was describing his own career, in which case he really needed to be put on suicide watch. And then I thought, nah, it’s David Brooks — I’m assuming a degree of self-awareness that simply isn’t there. So I wrote my own impression of Brooks. David Brooks. Paris. 1789. David Brooks was awakened early by the shouting and rumbling of carts outside his apartment window — why, it was perhaps as early as 11 o’clock, a most uncivilized hour for a gentleman. It was one of the obligations of nobility, however, to be willing to address his duties at any hour, and by God, he could rise even before the sun had reached its zenith. He rang the little silver bell by his bedside to summon his servants to come and dress him, rose, and slipped on his silk dressing gown. A pinch of snuff to invigorate the blood, and he was ready to investigate. He looked out his window, down upon the unwashed mobs of Paris. The tumbrels were rolling. Yet another day when the ranks of the aristocracy would be purged of their dead weight, he thought, leaving only the deserving to lead the country. He recognized one of the men roped in the cart, despite the shabbiness of his velvet coat and the loss of his wig; that young cockerel! His great grandparents had been merchants, and even now he was rumored to dabble in trade. No loss there. Just another trumped up nobody who had dared to regard himself as a match for those privileged by righteous birth. He was moved to write another missive for the King — the last had been well received and read aloud at court, and he was gaining quite...
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Ah, another refreshing dive into the mind of the MRA. Oh, wait, no — what’s the opposite of refreshing? Anyway, this guy calling himself Raywolf had this brilliant idea that the way to restore masculine dominance is to rape women anally. His justification: well, it works in prison. This kind of argument seems to sail blithely through the manosphere, but at least Dave Futrelle takes it apart. Since Manboobz has handled a genuinely repugnant idea so well, I don’t have much to say other than to point out the biologically insane additional explanation Raywolf offered: apparently, semen is supposed to have a magical effect on the emotional part of a woman’s body, her digestive tract. I was trying to think into why this might be and you can laugh at my theory, but the connection of the rectum to the digestive system which is in many ways the emotional brain of the human machine is clear and present. When someone says ‘he hasn’t got the stomach for it’ they mean it both literally and metaphorically. If you look at the intestines they look a lot like the curls of the brain. Being stressed or nervous can literally shut down your digestion, make you throw up or lose your appetite. It’s an emotional group of organs. The kidneys and lungs for example are a more logical organ, they just process all day long. The expression tight assed is another that springs to mind. Thank you for the permission to laugh, but I’d do it with or without your agreement. I’m trying to picture a hierarchy of emotionality vs. logic in human organs right now, and am really wondering where the testicles of MRAs fall on the scale. Somewhere off the chart into the realm of total hysteria (word carefully chosen for its irony), no doubt. Also, I’ve got to say that anyone who had ever seen brains and intestines would not consider them to have the slightest resemblance at all.

And good for them! They’ve added a holiday display to the collection in the Wisconsin capitol. I especially like the message: “Think this is ridiculous? We agree! Religious ideas should not be promoted within the halls of government. Protect the separation of church and state, it protects us all.” That ultimately has to be the point of every atheist group who joins in these absurd exercises in flaunting religiosity — it’s that this is ridiculous, and we’re not going to be silent anymore. You should congratulate a fine group of students for a job well done.

Atheist group uses NJ billboard for protest
The Trentonian
PITMAN (AP) — An atheist group that has been protested a southern New Jersey community's “Keep Christ in Christmas” banner has taken a new tactic this year. The Madison, Wisc.-based Freedom From Religion Foundation has rented a billboard in Pitman ...
Atheists rent South Jersey billboard for nonbelieversCherry Hill Courier Post

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