THE FOCUS
SEPTEMBER 15, 2006 Volume 2, Issue 37
Published by the Center For
Atheism (CFA)
Editor: Suzy
Lanza
Email:
THEFOCUS@CENTERFORATHEISM.ORG
The Focus will provide links to articles collected from major newspapers & magazines, and will be emailed weekly.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS:
This Week's Featured Articles
Section #1: News
Articles
Section #2: CFA
Programs
Section #3: Special
Notices
Section #4: Legislation Alerts
Please email any comments and suggestions to THEFOCUS@CENTERFORATHEISM.ORG
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This Week's Featured Articles
... Finally, what atheism is really about is not the
"denial of god" per se, but the idea that you do not accept extraordinary
claims as being true, unless you ...
...Sometimes the selection seems to be as
inconsequential as well. Discouragingly, large numbers of
church-going Christians have no idea what their churches claim to
believe. The rest of the world is decidedly different. Even in
Europe, where the right to a free choice of faith has been accepted
in most ...
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... slowly assembling. Berger talks to a passer-by who stopped by the New York City Atheists' tent in Columbus Circle in Manhattan. She ...
... values based on liberal humanism. And most of all we need to standup and say 'Yes, I am an atheist, and proud of it'. If enough of us ...
|
Listen to NPR
interview of Edward O. Wilson about his new book The Creation: An Appeal
to Save Life on Earth. ...
Before the
Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors. Nicholas
Wade.
A review of Daniel
Dennett's Breaking the Spell
Scientists who disagree
tend to talk: they do not blow each other up. Science encourages doubt;
religions quash it, as Frederick Crews
knows... |
These observations of the earliest stages in the evolution of galaxies provide new evidence for the hierarchical theory of galaxy formation--the idea that ...
A Portland elementary school didn't discriminate against an atheist first-grader by requiring his presence at a Boy Scout recruiting session held at ...
In a speech on Western science and philosophy, the pope said jihadi violence is contrary to reason and god's plan.
| A PRIEST has died after trying to demonstrate how Jesus walked on water. |
| Even his wife has reservations, asking him not to go naked in the house when ... I am how God made me.” Some Christian nudists get so taken with their new ... |
SECTION TWO: CFA PROGRAMS
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/state advocates.
CFA will accept and review suggestions from individuals and other secular
organizations that will foster our goals.
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SECTION THREE: SPECIAL
NOTICES
No special notices for this week...
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SECTION FOUR: LEGISLATION
ALERTS
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description
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ACTION ALERT!
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