Freethought Matters - Stephen Emmert
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- Опубліковано 27 бер 2024
- This week on "Freethought Matters," FFRF Co-Presidents Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker talk with Steven Emmert, executive director of the Secular Coalition for America, an advocacy group in Washington, DC, working to protect the equal rights of non-religious Americans. Emmert has worked in the policy, advocacy, and health sectors for many years, and has served as director or director of operations at Planned Parenthood Affiliates, at the National Coalition of Abortion Providers and the YWCA, and Us helping Us, serving black gay men.
Learn more about the Freedom From Religion Foundation at ffrf.org.
When authoritarians fear for their certainties, they become even more dangerous. Your efforts are truly appreciated. Thank you!
@SolaAndTotaScriptura I wish to be free of dogma. I want a secular government. I think that something like the Establishment Clause is necessary for an inclusive and pluralistic society. A lesson learned in part from the Thirty Years' War. FFRF is not forcing non-belief on others. It does not work to have government enact laws against religion. The Establishment Clause prohibits our government from controlling our religions and religions from controlling our government.
Thank you so much! 💙 Free thought matters!
Great interview!
Through a Child's Eyes.
When I was wee, I saw God
He was as real as my neighbor’s dog
I could see him everywhere
Without a doubt, he was there.
When I was six, I sought to know
Why God said he loved me so
Yet was never there to help me
Avoid pain ... that was plain to see
When I was ten, a troubled child
Religion made my thoughts go wild
Questions flooding through my mind
Never answers could I find
They think that children cannot see
The constant inconsistencies
Religions play, both night and day
With children that can't get away
But they knew not, what they did
‘Cause from their minds they could not rid
The same god stories they were told
By pioneers from days of old.
June VanDerMark
January 28, 2018
Jesus crazes.
yup.
@SolaAndTotaScriptura You don't need a belief system to be against superstition. I feel beliefs are a hindrance. I prefer physics, evidence, and factual data.
Beliefs are too subjective. Love all the imaginary supernatural superbeings you want, just don't force me to do it, or take other people's taxes to support it. Gods and demons are fear based. Overcome your fears. Fundamentals I support are quarks, atoms, molecular chemistry. I don't support cannibals who eat the flesh and drink the blood of a zombie authoritarian mass murderer who purportedly killed 99.999 percent of life on the planet because he screwed up and gave them free will. Or one that encourages followers to kill women every so often. What a jerk/monster if he had actually existed! Why are you so afraid of dying? Talk to a mental health counselor, not someone who encourages you to live a life of fear and ignorance (a priest, deacon, monsignor, etc.).
@SolaAndTotaScriptura how would you know? He isn't spoken of in the Bible, at least not by anyone who actually met him.
What? Nothing about the border, inflation, crime, or free speech being in danger? Any of the actual issues that plague everyday Americans? I gotta say…I’m pretty let down by this show. 😞
Hate never helps. The border is not our main threat. It never has been and it didn't improve with the previous administration. Ukraine is a tipping point for the free world. Inflation is leveling out. We did just recover from a pandemic with record spending and loss of jobs due to the effects of this virus on our economy. Our economy is improving, but the pressure exerted by said "paramilitary" groups on Jan. 6th. and the lies that have circulated since then have threatened the very existence of freedom here for the first time on such a level as this. Free speech is alive, but hate speech and fake news is being addressed now. This fake news affects both sides of the issues. You should be thankful that it is being addressed.