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Help Washington State Ban Displays of Faith in the Capitol Building

Remember when the Freedom From Religion Foundation created a media firestorm after putting up a pro-atheist plaque next to a nativity scene in the Washington state Capitol building last Winter?

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Statue of Ganesh Offends Visitors at Calgary Zoo

When the “Elephant Crossing” exhibit opened at the Calgary Zoo in 2006, a private donor gave the zoo a statue of the Hindu god Ganesh — it was in honor .

For some reason, the zoo…

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Jazz Bassist Ben Allison Outs Himself As an Atheist

Ben Allison is a jazz bassist whose ninth album, Think Free, will be released in a couple weeks.

What’s the deal with the album’s name? Allison explains:

This is my “coming out” album….

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Ricky Gervais Discusses Religion, Atheism, and The Invention of Lying

Ricky Gervais has been making the media rounds the past few weeks to talk about his new movie The Invention of Lying.

In the movie, lying leads to, among other things, the invention of religion.

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The Atheist Blogroll Hits 1,000?

Mojoey’s atheist blogroll is about to hit 1,000!

Is it significant?

Absolutely.

Say what you will about the quality of some of the blogs on that list, but it’s one barometer of the growth of…

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More Musicians Embrace Godlessness

Yesterday, I mentioned that Jazz bassist Ben Allison recently outed himself as an atheist. Apparently, he’s not the only musician taking that path.

The band A.F.I. (A Fire Inside) has a new…

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Charlotte Music Festival Gives Proceeds to Dawkins Foundation… Complaints Ensue

***Update***: I made an error with the original posting. No band opted out of the festival; only sponsors did. The posting now reflects that. Sorry for any confusion

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The Charlotte Pop Fest…

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Come see me debate on DC vouchers!

For those of you in the DC area, the DC Young Democrats invited me (Jesse) to participate in an Oxford-style debatetomorrow night and you should come! For those of you not in the DC area, I’ll…

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Crack Some Eggs!

cracking eggs

If I was to give you an egg and I told you that you had to be very careful with the egg, that you were to never break the egg or damage it in any way and you followed my instructions…

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Open Thread: Submit Your Deconversion Story

I’ve posted a link to a new deconversion story on Ebon Musings: “Deconversion as Withdrawal: Just what is this God-smack stuff, anyway?”, written by the vivacious and loquacious blogger D of She Who…

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seek and ye shall find…. but what?

I’ve been reading the comments here lately and I have noticed that a lot of Christian readers say the same things over and over again: “If you REALLY had been a Christian you would…

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It’s Not a Toy, Baby!

I thought all babies were supposed to know not to play with plastic bags…

(I swear I had nothing to do with this.)

This image clearly needs a caption. What do you think?

(Thanks to …

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Blogging About Philanthropy and Humanism

When Foundation Beyond Belief (that’s the placeholder website) officially opens shop on January 1^st, 2010, we’ll be needing bloggers to help us out.

If you know an atheist/humanist who blogs…

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The Will with the Jew-Only Clause

Max Feinberg, a dentist from Chicago, died in 1986. His wife Erla took over his estate and she died in 2003. After that, their five grandchildren stood to inherit at least $250,000 apiece.

There…

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The Gaytheists Blog

Reed Braden has begun a new website that sounds very promising:

The Gaytheists is a new group blog for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning Atheists, skeptics and Humanists.

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