Sonja Eggerickx, President of IHEU, came this morning to address our congress, and she talked about the possible cooperation between IHEU and IAF. You have in your files the proposed Convention, even if some printing mistakes have to be corrected. Why such a Convention? In the last decades, atheists and Read more…
Religions are Sects and Sects are Religions We, spokespersons of the IAFT, declare our complete agreement with the principle that it is impossible to establish a clear distinction between religions and sects which could justify conferring different status from the point of view of a secular state. Religions are sects Read more…
Dear Friends and Comrades, We are soon coming to the end of our international meeting. We can say that it is a success as for the number as well as the quality of presentations and interventions which have been made today. On this day of August 10, I remind a Read more…
(in alphabetical order of surname) Valentin ABGOTTSPON Marc BLONDEL Sonja EGGERICKX Hugo ESTRELLA Christian EYSCHEN Babu GOGINENI Bobbie KIRKHART Valerii KUVAKIN Jacques LAFOUGE Alfredo LASTRA Latin America Roger LEPEIX Marcelo V. LLOBET Maryam NAMAZIE David RAND Albert RIBA Monica Cecilia RODRÍGUEZ E. Georges SAAD Nina SANKARI David SILVERMAN Tanya SMITH Read more…
I am very pleased to support the founding World Congress of Free Thought. It’s particularly important in a world where religion, superstition, and archaic traditions and moralities are suppressing free thought and expression day in and day out. Today, we see this clearly with regards Islam not because Islam is Read more…
Dear Freethinking Friends! What a pleasure it is to be amongst you today – on a day when reincarnation appears to be the theme of the day – of course, it is the reincarnation of a Global Association for Freethought! Such an organisation is today’s need, hence my congratulations for Read more…
Resolution supporting the establishment of an international association of free thought We, Atheist Freethinkers, salute and support the creation of an international freethought association to promote secularism, freedom of conscience and critical thinking and to oppose obscurantism throughout the world. In accordance with the principles declared in our association’s Atheist Read more…
President, Russian Humanist Society; Director, Center for Inquiry-Russia; Editor in Chief, Common Sense magazine Dear Atheists and Freethinkers, On behalf of Russian Humanist Society, Center for Inquiry – Russia, and Free Thought and common Sense Foundation, I have a commission to express of approval and support of Manifesto on Free Read more…
The New Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Eurabia The contemporary conspiracy theory that causes death and terror in Europe The latter years of the 19th Century were the time for brewing revolutions against an order, unfair and authoritarian, all over Europe. Tensions were more evident where the situation was Read more…
To sum up atheism in the 21st century in one word – atheism is “active”. We are active because we need to be. We are active because the modern world has given us the tools we need. The simple idea of atheists being active is sometimes questioned. People compare atheists Read more…