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Freedom From is a Minneapolis, Minnesota based record label which primarily focuses on the international noise underground genre. The label was founded in 1996 with its first official release by a San Francisco three-piece named Job. Up until early 1998, the labels focus was singularly cassettes, with the most well-known being the infamous Thurston Moore/Beck/Tom Surgal cassette. During the course of its primary existence, FF often released either the first or first widely available release by many bands, including Jason Lescalleet, Hair Police, Sightings, No Doctors, Milovan Srdenovic, Violent Ramp, Reynols and many more. Freedom From was also one of the first entities to book and promote shows nationally for experimental/weird bands from 2001-2004, including the first major tours for bands like Wolf Eyes, Sightings, No Doctors, Hair Police, Mammal, Nautical Almanac and more. Freedom From also helped bring to prominence the last years of the infamous Church venue in Minneapolis, bringing bands like Animal Collective, Coachwhips, Wolf Eyes, Numbers, 25 Suaves, Glass Candy, Chromatics and many more for their first ever shows in the Twin Cities area. Finally, Freedom From is also known for the De Stijl/Freedom From and End Times Festivals, bringing in artists like Tony Conrad, The Boredoms, XBXRX, NNCK, Gang Gang Dance, Zip Code Rapists, Borbetomags, Smegma, Burning Star Core, Devendra Banhart, Arthur Doyle and many more.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is an American non-profit organization based in Madison, Wisconsin with members from all 50 states. The largest national organization advocating for non-theists, FFRF promotes the separation of church and state and educates the public on matters relating to atheism, agnosticism, and nontheism. The FFRF publishes a newspaper, Freethought Today. Since 2006, the Foundation has produced the Freethought Radio show.
The FFRF was co-founded by Anne Nicol Gaylor and her daughter, Annie Laurie Gaylor, in 1976 and was incorporated nationally in 1978. The organization is supported by over 22,000 members and operates from an 1855-era building in Madison, Wisconsin, that once served as a church rectory. According to the 2011 IRS tax Form-990, FFRF spent just over $200,000 on legal fees and services and just under $1 million on education, outreach, publishing, broadcasting, and events. The allotment for legal fees is primarily used in cases supporting the separation of church and state that involve governmental entities. FFRF also has a paid staff of fourteen, including four full-time staff attorneys.
Answers in Genesis (AiG) is a non-profit, fundamentalist, Christian apologetics ministry with a particular focus on supporting young Earth creationism (YEC), rejecting the scientific consensus on common descent and on the age of the Earth. It also advocates a literal interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative and claims the correct understanding of natural phenomena reveals its interpretation of Genesis to be scientifically accurate.
Answers in Genesis owns the Creation Museum. Answers in Genesis is also currently creating the Ark Encounter, a full-size replica of Noah's Ark. The organization has offices in the United Kingdom and the United States. It had offices in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, but in 2006 these seceded to form Creation Ministries International (CMI).
Answers in Genesis resulted from the merging of two Australian creationist organizations in 1980. One was founded in the late 1970s by John Mackay, Ken Ham, and others as Creation Science Educational Media Services. Its founders believed that the established Christian church's teaching of the Bible was being compromised. The group merged with Carl Wieland's Creation Science Association in 1980, becoming the Creation Science Foundation (CSF) that later became Answers in Genesis.
Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Ham (born 20 October 1951) is an Australian-bornyoung Earth creationist and Christian fundamentalist living in the United States. He is the president of Answers in Genesis (AiG), a Creationist apologetics ministry that operates the Creation Museum. Ham is a former high school science teacher.
Ham advocates Biblical literalism, taking the Book of Genesis as historical fact. His belief, based on a literal interpretation of the Bible that the universe is approximately 6,000 years old, is contradicted by the scientific consensus that the age of the universe and the age of the Earth are on the order of billions of years.
Ham was born on October 20, 1951 in Cairns, Australia. His father was a Christian educator who settled his family in Brisbane as a school principal. According to Ham:
Ham first rejected what he termed "molecules-to-man evolution" during high school, and became influenced by John C. Whitcomb and Henry M. Morris's The Genesis Flood in 1974 during college. Ham earned a Bachelor of Applied Science, with an emphasis in Environmental Biology, at Queensland Institute of Technology, and a diploma in Education from the University of Queensland.
Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter in northern Kentucky is a monument to ignorance built by a young earth creationist to convert people to his brand of Christianity. FFRF recently filmed a commercial at the ark park, using it as the example of so much that we fight against. It turns out that our commercial upset Ken Ham quite a bit. During Ham’s latest staff meeting, he showed our commercial and spent 20 minutes attacking FFRF and calling us liars. He did the same on Facebook Live the day after the commercial aired. Ham has made lots of accusations and claims; this video sets the record straight. Is attendance at the ark park soaring? Did the government give the ark park land? Did the government give the ark park public money? Is the government going to give the ark park more money?"
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) released a covert video exposing Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter in northern Kentucky, and its efforts to use taxpayer funds to lure public school students. Join FFRF today to help keep religion out of public schools! https://secure.ffrf.org/np/clients/ffrf/membershipJoin.jsp
how the divine pen of m.nostradamus smashed the atheist movement http://dissidentphilosophy.lifediscussion.net/t1310-the-boobquake-911 Freedom From Religion Foundation PO Box 750 Madison WI 53701 608/256-8900 FAX 608/204-0422 ______ FFRF Honorary Board Ron Reagan, media commentator, describes himself in a radio ad he taped for FFRF as: "Unabashed atheist, not afraid of burning in hell." Richard Dawkins, probably the world's most famous contemporary atheist and a distinguished evolutionary biologist, is Oxford professor emeritus. In his blockbuster book, The God Delusion, Dawkins writes: "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction." Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments For the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction and...
Some billboards intended to dispel myths about atheism are turning heads in Columbus, but one of them has been removed at the request of a church, 10TV's Josh Poland reported on Wednesday. Seven of the billboards have been put up at locations throughout the city by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The foundation wants the billboards to help the public understand that atheists are not bad people. As it turned out, Galos' first billboard was located near the corner of Stelzer Road and Allegheny Avenue, on property belonging to Christ Cathedral Church, Poland reported. "I was surprised, to be honest," he said. "I went there and it was next to a church." The church opted to have the sign removed. The billboard was moved to another location on the east side of Columbus. All the bil...
Physicist Sean Carroll - Emperor Has No Clothes Award Acceptance Speech 2014 FFRF National Convention Los Angeles, Calif.
FFRF attorneys explain dangers of Trump’s call to ’totally destroy' Johnson Amendment
"Freedom From Religion in the Bible Belt” was the theme of FFRF's (Freedom From Religion) Raleigh Regional Convention, May 2-3 2014 conference in downtown Raleigh, N.C., at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, 421 South Salisbury St. In conjunction with the Triangle Freethought Society, FFRF’s active Raleigh-area chapter, the gathering “won hearts and minds for reason and secularism.” CNN was scheduled to cover some of the event for an upcoming documentary on atheism.' The interview will be part of FFRF and the Dawkins Foundation's Openly Secular coalition campaign. Presented by Triangle Freethought Society. Scott Burdick provides a 10 minute interview with Bart after the conference, about his personal beliefs and religious experiences. Which had been previously posted here: https://www.youtube...
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We're on the train
I feel no pain
I feel no pain
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But I'm already there
Do you care?
Do you care?
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When you said
I'm gonna leave
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That you wanted to know
Where the geese go to
Late at night
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