Timely Topics
- ABC's of the Bible
- A listing of bible images showing that the bible is anything but a "Good Book"
- America Religious Identification Survey - Trinity College, March 2009
- “Nones” are 15% of the U.S. population
- ARIS: America Growing More Secular
- Statistics on the growing number of "Nonreligious" Americans
- Battle of Church and State
- Listen to the song by Dan Barker
- Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children
- Boy Scouts Of America Practices Discrimination
- Article by Annie Laurie Gaylor
- Case Against School Prayer
- Q&A, compelling arguments, and references to relevant Supreme Court cases
- College Football Chaplains Report
- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued a report in August 2015, condemning more than 25 public universities for allowing football coaches to impose their personal religion on players by hiring Christian chaplains.
- Darwin Day
- February 12 is “Darwin Day”.
- Days of Theocracy
- Hear the song by kristin Lems
- DeBaptismal Certificate
- Download or buy the DeBaptismal Certificate
- Freethought at the Flicks
- Movies with a freethought perspective.
- Freethought Week
- Freshmen Religious Preference at Four-Year Colleges
- Only Catholics Exceed ‘None’ - (Chronicle of Higher Education 2009 poll)
- Godless Constitution Ad
- This ad (which has run in the New York Times and dozens of other dailies) counters ubiquitous Hobby Lobby ads distorting the secular roots of the United States.
- In God We (Don't) Trust
- A series of articles showing the history of how a religious motto supplanted U.S. secular heritage.
- Let’s Dispense with Christian Funerals
- Pedophilia in the Church
- Articles on the clergy and child abuse, by Freedom From Religion Foundation staff.
- Proclamations
- Secular proclamations.
- Richard Dawkins Institute - Out Campaign
- A place to be proud and organize with other freethinkers.
- Secular Memorials and Funerals Without God
- Information and ideas about dogma-free funerals.
- The Pledge of Allegiance
- A series of articles on the origin, history, and meaning of the Pledge.
- There Ought Not To Be A Law
- Two articles, originally published in Freethought Today, 1990
Contributed Articles
- Pledging Allegiance to Constitution
- by Michael Newdow.
- The Bush Years; Confessions of a Lonely Atheist
- by Natalie Angier.
- Time to Stand Up
- by Richard Dawkins.
Studies on Religion & Atheism
- American Religious Landscape (Pew/Akron U 2004)
- 16% of Americans "unaffiliated".
- American Sociological Review, Univ. of Minnesota 2006
- Atheists as 'other'
- Americans are somewhat more open to the idea of an atheist president
- About half (53%) of Americans said they would be less likely to support an atheist as a presidential candidate.
- Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths (PEW 2012)
- 19% of the American population is nonreligious.
- Associated Press - National Constitution Center Poll: 24% No religion
- Shows that 24%, when asked their religious preference, responded "don't belong to religious denomination"
Interview of 1,007 adults conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications
Aug. 11-16, 2010 - Journal of Religion & Society
- Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies by Gregory S. Paul, 2005
- PEW's Religious Landscape Survey, February 25, 2008
- 16% unaffiliated; 1 in 4 age 18-29 are not affiliated with any religion
- Polling Location Influence on Voting Behavior
- A 2008 study by Stanford Graduate School of Business on the influence of polling locations on voting behavior
- Religion Among the Millenials
- Feb. 2010
Shows that "fully one-in-four adults under age 30: is atheist, agnostic or "nothing in particular" - “Nones” on the Rise (PEW 2012)
- Not only are one in five Americans nonreligious, younger Americans are the least religious population in the country: One in three Americans aged 18-29 are not religious.
