ARKANSAS FREE THINKERS IN THE NEWS
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:13 am
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"It's part of a national campaign by the Freedom From Religion Foundation and is a reaction to the state's display of a creche on the Capitol grounds each year. The national group was behind the now famous winter solstice display in the state of Washington that has stirred conservative commentators. This is the season for Christians, dammit. Everybody else needs to shut up and like it. And spend money, of course.
The photo was taken Dec. 21, during a Human Light/Winter Solstice observance by members of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the Fayetteville Free Thinkers and the Freethinkers of Central Arkansas.
Ark Times story and commentary here.
RELEASE FROM CENTRAL ARKANSAS FREE THINKERS
Seasons Greetings,
The Arkansas Society of Freethinkers would like to declare our intensions for the “Beware Of Dogma” billboard that greets you as you enter North Little Rock from the Main Street Bridge. We are in a season where Americans are celebrating. We celebrate logic, reason, critical thinking, and most important, we celebrate life!
Our first intension would be to encourage you to remain critical, and logical, and to continue to use your reasoning skills in ALL aspects of your life. Exercise these mental tools all 7 days of the week.
Second, we want any of you who think that you are alone in your skepticism of religion to know that you are not, even here in the great state of Arkansas. Atheist-friendly people are welcome to make new friends through http://www.ARfreethinkers.ORG.
Lastly, we want theists to know the atheists, agnostics, Brights, freethinkers, heretics, infidels, nullifidians, heathens, secular humanists, and skeptics, also live here among you. Many more of us feel more threatened by you than you may feel by the presence of this billboard. Many of us aren’t comfortable with the thought and consequences of announcing, or even, no longer hiding, our skepticism of religion. We all live here though, so let’s be mindful of others, isn’t that one of the lessons to learn and share during your holiday too?
The Arkansas Society of Freethinkers, now a 501c non-prophet group (pun intended), would love to thank the Freedom From Religion Foundation of Wisconsin for sponsoring the billboard. Similar secular campaigns in D.C. ask “Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake.” Being good for goodness’ sake, now that’s something that we think we all can agree on.
Happy Holidays America,
Arkansas Society of Freethinkers
Dogma is a settled or established opinion, belief, or principle. Dictionary.com lists its first definition as, “a system of principles or tenets, as of a church.”
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"It's part of a national campaign by the Freedom From Religion Foundation and is a reaction to the state's display of a creche on the Capitol grounds each year. The national group was behind the now famous winter solstice display in the state of Washington that has stirred conservative commentators. This is the season for Christians, dammit. Everybody else needs to shut up and like it. And spend money, of course.
The photo was taken Dec. 21, during a Human Light/Winter Solstice observance by members of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the Fayetteville Free Thinkers and the Freethinkers of Central Arkansas.
Ark Times story and commentary here.
RELEASE FROM CENTRAL ARKANSAS FREE THINKERS
Seasons Greetings,
The Arkansas Society of Freethinkers would like to declare our intensions for the “Beware Of Dogma” billboard that greets you as you enter North Little Rock from the Main Street Bridge. We are in a season where Americans are celebrating. We celebrate logic, reason, critical thinking, and most important, we celebrate life!
Our first intension would be to encourage you to remain critical, and logical, and to continue to use your reasoning skills in ALL aspects of your life. Exercise these mental tools all 7 days of the week.
Second, we want any of you who think that you are alone in your skepticism of religion to know that you are not, even here in the great state of Arkansas. Atheist-friendly people are welcome to make new friends through http://www.ARfreethinkers.ORG.
Lastly, we want theists to know the atheists, agnostics, Brights, freethinkers, heretics, infidels, nullifidians, heathens, secular humanists, and skeptics, also live here among you. Many more of us feel more threatened by you than you may feel by the presence of this billboard. Many of us aren’t comfortable with the thought and consequences of announcing, or even, no longer hiding, our skepticism of religion. We all live here though, so let’s be mindful of others, isn’t that one of the lessons to learn and share during your holiday too?
The Arkansas Society of Freethinkers, now a 501c non-prophet group (pun intended), would love to thank the Freedom From Religion Foundation of Wisconsin for sponsoring the billboard. Similar secular campaigns in D.C. ask “Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake.” Being good for goodness’ sake, now that’s something that we think we all can agree on.
Happy Holidays America,
Arkansas Society of Freethinkers
Dogma is a settled or established opinion, belief, or principle. Dictionary.com lists its first definition as, “a system of principles or tenets, as of a church.”
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