THE FOCUS
SEPTEMBER 22, 2006 Volume 2, Issue 38
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
... He is right to be concerned that any Muslim who converts to Christianity (or to atheism) has put his life in jeopardy, as conversion away from the faith is ...
... The result is a powerful reaffirmation of America's greatest contribution to human liberty: the separation of church and state. ...
... But the Dallas imam emphasized commitment to religious tolerance is grounded in the Islamic faith—not in separation of church and state. ...
... membership in the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a group of atheists and agnostics that monitors the separation of church and state, increased from 900 to ...
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ATHEISM
Atheist Pride - ExChristian.Net - News and Opinion
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... Mr Dawkins is an atheist, an evolutionary biologist and an eloquent communicator about science, three passions that have allowed him to construct a ...
Religious critics of evolution have trained their sights on one of the world's pre-eminent fossil exhibits -- Louis and Richard Leakey's extensive skeletal ...
Creationism is bad theology. The watchmaker god of intelligent-design creationism is delimited to being a garage tinkerer piecing ...
Scientists said fossils found in Ethiopia should give new insights into a little-known period of early human origins.
The Internal Revenue Service announced a renewed effort to enforce laws that limit charities' involvement in partisan campaigns.
Campaign Ad Filmed in Church Divisive, “Crosses the Line”
... facility is one of many in which US courts have sought a balance between freedom of religion and the country's traditional separation between church and state. ...
A must-pass $500 billion defense budget should not be held hostage to an amendment that violates policies of religious tolerance.
... Harris, you see, was, and remains, an atheist. Not just any atheist. His book The End of Faith was widely read, and widely praised for its courage. ...
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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