Humanist Charity Funds Disaster Relief Effort

Humanist Charities, an adjunct of the American Humanist Association, is funding a relief effort to provide food, water, medical supplies and rescue tools to the people of Jacmel, a Haitian city that has been devastated by the earthquake that struck the country last Tuesday but which has received little media attention.

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Non-Believers Giving Aid: A Religion-Free Way To Help Disaster Victims

Spurred by the horrific suffering in Haiti, the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (RDFRS) has joined forces with 13 other freethought groups or associates, to collect donations to non-religious relief organizations. Those participating are Atheist Alliance International, Atheists Helping the Homeless, Atheists United, The British Humanist Association, James Randi Educational Foundation, Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, New Humanist magazine, Pharyngula, Rationalist Association, Reasonable New York, The Reason Project, The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, The Skeptics Society and Unreasonable Faith.

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Secular help for Haiti

Bowling for Atheists: Haiti Proves that Nonbelievers Care Too

Natural, not supernatural, disasters

Many Haitians' Religious Faith Unshaken By Earthquake

Perhaps few personified that deep belief better than 11-year-old Anaika Saint Louis, who was pulled from the rubble Thursday night and later died. Her leg had been crushed, and doctors thought they might have to amputate her feet. She said she didn't care.

"Thank you, God, because he saved my life," she said. "If I lose my feet, I always had my life."

She was rescued too late. She died.

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Earthquake Survivors Get Solar-Powered Bibles

As international aid agencies rush food, water and medicine to Haiti's earthquake victims, a US faith-based group is sending Bibles to Haitians in their hour of need.

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Kenneth Copeland Accused of Humanitarian Aid Fraud

Why God Hates Haiti

Prop. 8 Challengers Highlight Religion's Role In Campaign

San Francisco - Challengers of California's ban on same-sex marriage tried to show Wednesday that religion has promoted discrimination against gays.

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Action Alert: Protest Mother Teresa Stamp

The U.S. Postal Service announced with great fanfare in January that among the 2010 stamps it is releasing will be one honoring Mother Teresa. What's wrong with honoring this nun with a U.S. postage stamp? Plenty. Only about 25 new commemorative stamps a year are selected using 12 criteria. It is against these postal regulations to "honor religious institutions or individuals whose principal achievements are associated with religious undertakings or beliefs."

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Humanists Applaud President Obama For Including Nontheists In Religious Freedom Day

The American Humanist Association today commended President Obama for his continued acknowledgement and inclusion of nonbelievers when speaking about the role of religion in American life. "...It was the genius of America's forefathers to protect our freedom of religion, including the freedom to practice none at all," President Obama said while delivering a speech declaring Saturday Religious Freedom Day.

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Group Advocates Church And State Separation With Billboard

A state group has sponsored a temporary downtown billboard emphasizing the importance of separation of church and state.

The billboard at Third and Cass streets through February is part of the Wisconsin chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State's two-month advertising push. The campaign, which also involved similar signage at Milwaukee bus stops, advocates the constitutional separation of religion and government.

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'God Is' Ad Campaign To Hit 1,000 NYC Subways

Pro-God ads will hit some 1,000 subway cars throughout New York City beginning Friday, announced the New York church sponsoring the campaign.

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President Of AHA On Alan Colmes Radio Show

David Niose, President of the AHA (American Humanist Association), was a guest on the Alan Colmes radio show with the Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition. David did a wonderful job representing and defending those of us who proudly call ourselves nontheists.

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Video: Bertrand Russell on God

CBS Approves Focus On The Family's Super Bowl Ad, Despite Its Policy Against Advocacy Spots

Last week, conservative organization Focus on the Family announced that it planned to air a 30-second "life- and family-affirming" television ad during the Super Bowl on Feb. 7. The ad will feature 2007 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam, who will "share one of their many positive personal stories." Specific details about the ad haven't been released, but the AP notes that it is "likely to be an anti-abortion message chronicling Pam Tebow's 1987 pregnancy."

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No More Jesus Rifles

Trijicon, the gunsight maker that has imprinted Bible verse numbers on its scopes, has announced that it will no longer imprint the verses on the sides of scopes intended for the U.S. military, and will also provide clients with the kits to remove the Bible verse numbers from existing scopes.

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Jesus Rifles Stopped!

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'Survival of the Cutest' Proves Darwin Right

ScienceDaily -- Domestic dogs have followed their own evolutionary path, twisting Darwin's directive 'survival of the fittest' to their own needs -- and have proved him right in the process, according to a new study by biologists Chris Klingenberg, of The University of Manchester and Abby Drake, of the College of the Holy Cross in the US.

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Monkeys Go Out On A Limb To Show Gratitude

Evolutionary biologists Filippo Aureli of Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool, UK, and Gabriele Schino of the Italian National Research Council's Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR) in Rome, have now combed through dozens of previous studies to quantify how often primates groomed relatives and non-relatives, and how often the favour was returned. They found that, contrary to the prevailing view, primates were more likely to groom others that had groomed them, regardless of their relatedness. Publishing their analysis in Ecology Letters1, the researchers report that reciprocity alone explained about 20% of the variability in grooming behaviour in 14 different species of primates, whereas kinship alone explained only 3%.

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Americans' Bias Against Jews, Muslims Linked, Poll Says

A poll about Americans' views on Islam concludes that the strongest predictor of prejudice against Muslims is whether a person holds similar feelings about Jews.

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ADF Sponges Off FFRF'S Lawsuit

The Alliance Defense Fund, an extremely wealthy Christian right legal group, sent out a four-page fundraising letter this month to its supporters begging for money to fight Freedom From Religion Foundation's important federal lawsuit challenging the National Day of Prayer.

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Questions Raised About Anti-Abortion Groups Getting Va. License Plate Fee

When a Virginia driver purchases a specialty "Choose Life" anti-abortion license plate, $15 of the $25 processing fee goes to Heartbeat International, a Christian group that distributes the money to pregnancy resource centers located across the state.

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Oregon City Faith-Healing Trial Opens With Starkly Different Views Of Boy's Death

OREGON CITY -- As Neil Beagley lay dying on his grandmother's bed, his parents did not take him to a hospital or call 9-1-1 or make any lifesaving efforts, a Clackamas County prosecutor told jurors Tuesday.

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Kansas Judge In Abortion Case Comes Under Scrutiny

WICHITA, Kan. -- The judge overseeing the trial of the man accused of gunning down a Kansas abortion doctor is a practicing Roman Catholic who once courted the endorsement of an anti-abortion group - but who has insisted the case won't be about abortion.

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Ex-Pastor Who Killed Wife Gets 65-Year Prison Term

WACO, Texas (AP) -- Jurors on Thursday sentenced a former Texas minister to 65 years in prison for murdering his wife and trying to cover it up as a suicide.

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