Lebanon is a complicated country. For a foreigner who comes for tourism to the land of the cedar tree, it could be a secular country because it has everything to look like a western country. In fact, Lebanon makes the advanced aspect at the social level cohabit with the backward Read more…
Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I am thrilled to be here today at the International Liason Committee of Atheists and Freethinkers among this most distinguished audience representing the cause of the separation of church and state. I am David Silverman, president of American Atheists. American Atheists was formed in 1963 Read more…
Recently a friend asked if I thought religion would ever disappear in the face of scientific progress.I answered with the riddle about the cockroach crossing the room. You have probably heard it:The room is six meters across. In the first hour, the roach gets halfway across the room, three meters, Read more…
Ladies and gentlemen, Dear friends, The Pope is a very disagreeable fellow. At least disagreeable for all those whose estimation for freedom, reason and tolerance is high – even if their number became not any more too high since Hitler and the beginning of the global American rule. His rule Read more…
We are meeting in Oslo on a historic occasion of the World HumanistCongress and the World Founding Congress of Freethought. 21st Century is a Century of atheism, Freethought, humanism, Rationalism, secularism and skepticism. The whole world is moving towards a post-religious society. We have come a long way. In spite Read more…
The commitment to secularism and against the presence of a crucifix in a public school leads to dismissal of a teacher in the canton of Valais/Wallis (Switzerland) In Switzerland there exists a decision of the Federal Court of 1990 providing that a crucifix in a public school violates the requirement Read more…
Dear Friends, Freethinkers, I am honoured and pleased to be today in Oslo among founders of the International Association of Free Thought. My mandate was given to me by several Polish organizations, including the Polish Rationalist Association, the K. Lyszczynski Association of Free Thinkers and the Polish Association of Atheists Read more…
On February 17, 2012, anniversary of the execution of the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, a ceremony takes place in his honor on the place where he was burned at the stake in 1600, in Campo dei Fiori, in Rome. The name of Giordano Bruno is dear to all partisans of Read more…
To the participants in the congress of Oslo of the ILCALF In the first place, we greet all those with whom we shared ideals and we highly encourage them to continue with force the fight for rationality and freedom of conscience, in other words secularism and free thought. We are Read more…
In a nutshell, I would say in the first place that some people do not consider any more the fight for secularism as an ideological fight against the Roman Catholic Church or any other religion. Those people say that you can be a believer and at the same time an Read more…