I am thrilled to announce the launch of our bold, ambitious strategic plan for the coming years. If you attended our national conference in Philadelphia, you caught a glimpse of the outline. Today, for the first time, all our members can see how we leveraged input from members, staff, board, and partners to create one…
It’s a rare day that a nonbeliever has anything to thank Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for. Writing for the Daily Beast earlier this week, Rep. Jared Huffman, co-founder and co-chair of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, called Alito’s flag-flying a “proud and undeniable embrace of the extreme Christian nationalist movement” that “sounds an alarm for…
Memorial Day is one national holiday that leaves many feeling somber as we remember friends, family, and others who have lost their lives for our nation — the one we call free. I enlisted in the Army as a 68C Practical Nursing Specialist in 2017, back when I was still a devout Christian. When I…
WEBINAR PUSHING BACK PRIVATIZATION AND ADVOCATING FOR SECULAR SCHOOLS JUNE 4, 8:00 PM ET School privatization has become a big business in many states, as states like Arizona, Iowa, Florida, and others have passed universal voucher laws. These laws have the potential to fatally undermine public education by diverting taxpayer dollars to private, religious schools….
Stephen Hawking once gave a simple answer as to whether there was a God – Harry Fletcher – May 20, 2024 – Indy100 Professor Stephen Hawking says he “fits a sterotype of a disabled genius” but that he is “not a genius like Einstein”, describing his Black Holes theory as a “eureka moment”.
Although religious belief is correlated with climate change denialism and less commitment to the environment, Catholics, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and Evangelical Christians have all issued calls for better environmental stewardship. And yet, on Wednesday, as Key West was experiencing a record heat index of 115°F, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis disappeared climate change, effective July 1….
This week, the board overseeing the third-largest school district in Texas voted to remove 13 chapters from five science textbooks. The subjects deemed “controversial” by all but one of the Cy-Fair ISD trustees included vaccinations, cultural diversity, human growth and development, climate change, and humans’ impact on the environment. The decision to omit these materials…
On Thursday, President Biden issued a proclamation declaring a National Day of Prayer. He did so as every president has since 1952, in accordance with a federal law requiring the President to “set aside…a suitable day…on which the people of the United States may turn to God in prayer…” In 1988, Congress decided the most…
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for a set of cases that could have enormous — even deadly — consequences on the ability of pregnant patients to receive life-saving abortion care. It was the Court’s third major abortion hearing in the last two years, and the third that was brought there with the…
Over the last six years, American Atheists has developed a powerful partnership with Unchained At Last to combat child marriage, and we are proud to be a co-chair of the National Coalition to End Child Marriage in the United States.Did you know that between 2000 and 2018, nearly 300,000 children in the United States were…