Word: atheistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says Pat Robertson. Like a lot of Americans, I find this statement deeply disturbing. My concern, however, is a little different than that of most patriots. I am one of those non-Christian people. More specifically, I am an atheist...
...public lecture last year, atheist Wendy Kaminer of Radcliffe College noted that over half of Americans polled would deny an atheist the basic right to speak at a town meeting. According to the poll, atheists are despised even more than homosexuals, yet another group that suffers at the hands of intolerant religious extremists. In four states and in countless communities, it is illegal for an atheist to hold public office...
...Many atheist students I know hide their beliefs from their parents and keep painful silence about them. Their concerns, I fear, are justified; a significant fraction of my atheist friends have been cast out and ostracized by their own parents and families because of their religious doubt...
These concerns led me to take a role in atheist campus activism. I co-founded and now preside over both the Harvard Secular Society and the international Campus Freethought Alliance. The CFA is an umbrella organization comprising some 100 student atheist and humanist groups, including...
When students learn of my role in the EAC (read: Evil Atheist Conspiracy), they often give me strange or even dirty looks. Many religious students misunderstand our focus and intent, and it is the purpose of this article to clear up some of these misconceptions...