March 9, 2007 Volume 3, Issue 10 Published by the Center For Atheism (CFA) Editor: Suzy Lanza The Focus  provides links to articles collected from major newspapers &               magazines and is emailed weekly.                             This Week In Atheism is a cable show that discusses the featured articles highlighted below, every Wednesday at 6:30 P.M.(EST)- Manhattan Cable station 57.  Live streaming is available at: www.mnn.org.   Comments, suggestions and subscription:  THEFOCUS@CENTERFORATHEISM.ORG --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    This Week’s Featured Articles        Child's death renews scrutiny of local church - Nashville ...           Bush administration's quiet campaign against religious bias - Nashville, Tennessee                    NPR : Is America Too Damn Religious?

News Articles           (Some publications may require that you sign up for membership to view their article.)           ATHEISM        Atheism debate stretches from pop culture to history BP News        Daniel C. Dennett - On Faith --------------------------------------------------------------------------           BOOKS, MOVIES, THEATRE, TELEVISION, VIDEOS, DVDS           Books on Atheism Are Raising Hackles in Unlikely Places - New York ...        New Yorker : critics : atlarge            Bellevue Literary Press - Books - Hospitals - New York Times             Prometheus Books god: the failed Hypothesis   Female victims of so-called honor killings - New York Times        ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------           EVOLUTION / CREATIONISM / I.D.                                                                                                                                           Evolution and Religion - Darwin’s god - New York Times           In Lice, Clues to Human Origin and Attire - New York Times                                            ---------------------------------------------------------------------------       SCIENCE        $100 million gift to Cambridge institute will bolster study of genetics in mental         illness - The Boston Globe                                                                                                                                                             --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                             SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE     Court OKs bonds for state religious schools - Los Angeles Times      Church-state case heard - baltimoresun.com      New rule on church-state separation - Nethaway:      The Evening Bulletin - Murray: ACLU Challenges Tax-Exempt Churches  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------       MISCELLANEOUS      Moved by the Spirit to Dance With the Lord     The Blog | Bruce Feiler: The Jesus Tomb Meets the Internet | The Huffington Post     A Toast to Evolvability and Its Promise of Surprise - New York Times      Who Took the 'Judeo' Out of 'Judeo-Christian'? - The Chronicle:     PRINTABLES - The New Yorker:

CFA Programs                     Atheists to Counter ‘National Day of Prayer' with Blood Donations ------------------  Lifesaving Action, Not Passive Prayer, Is the Message ---------------   What do you do on May 3, 2007, the “National Day of Prayer,” if you are an atheist, do not believe in prayer and are opposed to the observance of a prayer day being imposed on all American citizens?   While Believers are praying on May 3rd, groups of atheists will go to Blood Banks in scores of U.S. locales to donate their blood and sign up for organ donation programs. It is a nationwide action which we hope will point out that there are alternatives to silently beseeching a deity to perform miracles.   "We want to make a public statement about how nonreligious people can observe the so-called National Day of Prayer, which we have renamed Gift To Life Day.   If you want to start a Gift To Life Day in your locale; contact:   Ken Bronstein: centerforatheism@aol.com The Center for Atheism (CFA) was established by the New York City Atheists as a separate and independent national organization to propose, develop, and be a catalyst for new national activities supporting the objectives of atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers, skeptics, secularists and separation-of-church-and-state advocates. CFA will accept and review suggestions from individuals and other secular organizations that will foster our goals.

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