Daily Archives: November 24, 2019

Interview with Fauzia Ilyas – President, Atheist & Agnostic Alliance Pakistan

by | November 24, 2019

— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Fauzia Ilyas is the Founder and President of the Atheist & Agnostic Alliance Pakistan. This is an extremely dangerous country for freethinkers, especially women of the freethought community with the explicit title of atheist or agnostic, as known to most readers here. When we look at the contexts for women’s rights… Read more »

The Brainstorm Podcast: “The Torture Dungeon Of Creating Atheists”

by | November 24, 2019

By The Brainstorm Podcast The Brainstorm podcast is Saskatchewan’s first skeptic and atheist podcast. An eclectic group of local skeptics discuss a variety of topics relating to science, skepticism, religion and politics while having a few drinks and a few laughs. “The Torture Dungeon Of Creating Atheists” episode link here: http://brainstormpodcast.ca/the-torture-dungeon-of-creating-atheists Originally release date: November 30th,… Read more »

Interview with James A. Haught: UnitedCoR’s new Writer-in-Residence

by | November 24, 2019

— By Susan, Education Officer and National Coordinator (UnitedCoR) (United Coalition of Reason – 8/23/17) James A. Haught was born on Feb. 20, 1932, in a small West Virginia farm town that had no electricity or paved streets. He graduated from a rural high school with 13 students in the senior class. He came to Charleston, worked as a… Read more »

Religion-Tinged Politics

by | November 24, 2019

By James Haught James Haught is editor of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry. He is 87-years-old and would like to help secular causes more. This series is a way of giving back. — White evangelicals put Donald Trump into the White House.  They swarmed to the 2016 election in high… Read more »