challenging religious privilege in public life

Ed Buckner

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Does the Existence of Atheists Prove There is a God?

Why do theists keep asking already answered questions? I don’t really know and I’m not sure they do, either.

On Declaring Ourselves Independent of Christianity

The US Constitution is literally a "godless" document: the word "God" does not appear anywhere in the country's legal document.

Leaders Say the US is Christian, So…

The religiosity and the devotion to the myth of the US being founded as a Christian nation is quite widespread and persistent.

Just How Supreme is the Supreme Court?

US Supreme Court Justice (David Josiah Brewer) declared in an 1892 Supreme Court case, that the US is a "Christian Nation".

Do States’ Rights Include the Right to a State Religion?

Thomas Jefferson rejoiced with John Adams when the Congregational church was finally disestablished in Connecticut in 1818.

What Would Change Your Mind About God?

Uncertainty about the existence of a god should rank with uncertainty about things like fairies in the bottom of the garden.

On the Right to Have Rights If There Is No God There to Grant Any

The Bible is inadequate for protecting human rights that all modern Americans take for granted as obviously wise and just rights.

Wasn’t Jefferson’s Famous Wall of Separation Letter Just About Keeping Government from Interfering with Churches?

Jefferson hostility was against both government interference in individual religious choices AND church interference in government.

Thomas Jefferson, Christian?

Jefferson was an ardent supporter of separation of church and state and he wrote to debunk the idea that our laws are based on Christianity.

Judging the Religious Record

The lesson for religious apologists is this: You cannot expunge the bad stuff about your religion.

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