No atheists allowed in foxholes
http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/03/10/no-atheists-allowed-in-foxholes/

{EXCERPT} World Magazine, NC According to an Associated Press account, Hall
alleges that Gates permits a military culture in which officers are encouraged
to pressure soldiers to adopt...

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Atheist Soldier Says Army Punished Him
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{EXCERPT} The Associated Press (AP) A soldier claimed Wednesday that his
promotion was blocked because he had claimed in a lawsuit that the Army was
violating his right to be an atheist...

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You are invited to sign the open letter bellow to support teaching of
the theory of evolution and philosophical approaches on religion in
Romanian public schools, by sending us an email at
freedomofconscience@gmail.com no later than Monday, 24 March 2008.
The whole letter is below and the link to the open letter is here
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English and you will find the details on this issue):

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My best wishes,

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Open Letter to The Romanian Ministry of Education, Research, and Youth

Put the theory of evolution and philosophical approaches to religion
back in biology and philosophy curricula in Romanian public schools!

Mr. Minister Cristian Adomnitei,

I did promise that I would try to get back to reading the book,

(1) Research Methods for Social Work, by Allen Rubin an Earl Babbie, 2001,

and to report on whatever I learn that might be relevant to this group.
Recall that this promise arose in the ancient context of a posting of
David V. in which he drew our attention to some online paper claiming
to find a correlation between religious belief and some negative outcomes.
I really don't remember the details now and I don't think they matter
anymore. I consider the effort to acquire some appreciation of the standards
of research to be more important than the matter of the particular article,
even though I recall that my impressions of the article were somewhat negative.

The book (1) itself is not really appropriate material for soc.atheism; it
would not be right to simply read it and to quote from it. It might be
appropriate to do so when it actually impinged on the ways in which we draw
statistical inferences about groups of people, including religious groups and
political groups. So, I'll try to keep that important distinction in mind.

I personally like to have a focus when I read a book such as (1), especially
since I really know very little about sociology or the methods of social
scientists. I'm not quite sure how to proceed with...

How do we know that the objects collected and used by cargo cults
have religious significance, rather than merely artistic significance
which the people take very seriously?

Has this ng devolved into a proctored seminar of some sort?

Brief (I hope) tale on the subject: when I was just starting to read
and post to Usenet, I took up with alt.atheism.moderated. There were
some very bright folks posting there, from a variety of academic...

I noticed a posting by Apostate in which he offered to pray for someone
on this group. So I infer that he prays and therefore that he might not
be an atheist. In the thread, "who has an actual problem?", I've been asking
about venues in which atheists on this group actually have dealings with the
faithful in matters pertaining to religion, including dealings with
creationists regarding creationism. I was surprised to note that no one
mentioned contacts on newsgroups. Then Apostate arrives, apparently filling
that void.

Apostate, if you are still reading this group, do you think you could
describe yourself a little? I'd like to know, for example:
(1) What is your position on Creationism?
(2) What is your view of the Religious Right?
(3) In what sense are you an Apostate?

Steve Kelley wrote:

I think society would benefit from a reduction of abortion. Not
outlawing or criminalizing or anything like that, but better sex
education and easier access to birth control for any one that
wants it.

I think that potential human deserves some respect but not to the
point where it would over ride any rights the woman has. Of
course the choice is always up to the woman and any one involved
should support whatever choice she makes. I've just made sure I
have never put a woman into the position where she had to make
that choice.

Posted at http://www.secularstudents.org/node/1933

January 30, 2008
For Release: Immediately Upon Receipt

MySpace Deletes Largest Atheist Group in the World.

Cleveland, OH. Social networking site, MySpace.com, panders to
religious intolerants by deleting atheist users, groups and content.

Early this month, MySpace again deleted the "Atheist and Agnostic
Group (35,000 members). This deletion, due largely to complaints
from people who find atheism offensive, marks the second time
MySpace has cancelled the group since November 2007.

What's unique in this case is that the Atheist and Agnostic Group
was the largest collection of organized atheists in the world.
The group had its own Wikipedia entry, and in April won the
Excellence in Humanist Communication Award (2007) from the
Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University and the Secular Student
Alliance.

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