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The American Humanist Association (AHA) is a non-profit organization in the United States that advances secular humanism. [3]The American Humanist Association was founded in 1941 and currently provides legal assistance to defend the constitutional rights of secular and religious minorities, [4] lobbies Congress on church-state separation and other issues, [5] and maintains a grassroots network ...
Atheists in Indonesia experience official discrimination in the context of registration of births and marriages, and the issuance of identity cards. [145] In 2012, Indonesian atheist Alexander Aan was beaten by a mob, lost his job as a civil servant and was sentenced to two and a half years in jail for expressing his views online.
The American Atheists organization is known for its controversial antireligious billboards, intended by the organization to draw out closeted atheists within religious groups. A billboard on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway displaying the Hebrew Tetragrammaton erected after the celebration of the Jewish holy day of Purim caused outrage from many ...
Even as people move away from religion, the desire for spirituality and connectedness remains. That’s where atheist, or humanist, chaplains come in. Atheist chaplains are forging a new path in a ...
Charles E. Stevens American Atheist Library and Archives (CESAALA) is a collection of over 40,000 volumes of books, documents, and various other research tools located in Cranford, New Jersey, United States. It was founded by the American Atheists and currently records oral histories of various intellectuals and
Accurate demographics of atheism are difficult to obtain since conceptions of atheism and self-identification are context dependent by culture. [12] In 2009, Pew stated that only 5% of the US population did not have a belief in a god and out of that small group only 24% self-identified as "atheist", while 15% self-identified as "agnostic" and ...
Michael Arthur Newdow (born June 24, 1953) is an American attorney and emergency medicine physician.He is best known for his efforts to have recitations of the current version of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools in the United States declared unconstitutional because of its inclusion of the phrase "under God".
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