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Do Unto Others

By Hank Zumach, January 19, 2014 Published in the La Crosse Tribune. It will not surprise the regular readers of these columns that I have serious theological disagreements with the major religions. It may surprise, even shock, readers that I … Continue reading →

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Has This Debate Run Its Course?

By Mike Dishnow, November 24, 2013 Published in the La Crosse Tribune. A learned and respected community member opined to me that the continuing debate between the atheists and theists in the tribune is perplexing. The members of his mainstream … Continue reading →

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Morality debate questions human behavior without God

by Samantha Luhmann Published in the La Crosse Tribune A Minnesota atheist and a local pastor will go head to head Sunday and debate whether a person can be good without God. The La Crosse Secular Student Society and the … Continue reading →

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Character Is What Really Counts

By Mike Dishnow, June 09, 2013 Published in the La Crosse Tribune. It’s easy to name famous and accomplished atheists — Mark Twain, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jodie Foster, Marlene Dietrich and Richard Branson. It is also easy to name … Continue reading →

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Common Misconceptions about the Religious and Nonreligious

By Joshua Everett, January 20, 2013 Published in the La Crosse Tribune. As a former Christian minister, I have had the opportunity to get to know a number of religious and nonreligious people. One thing I have found is most … Continue reading →

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Celebrating Holidays as an Atheist

By Raysa Everett, December 16, 2012 Published in the La Crosse Tribune. I have a confession to make: I’m an atheist and I love the Christmas season. Atheists who celebrate holidays such as Christmas are frequently maligned as hypocrites, but … Continue reading →

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Freethought Radio Interviews LCAFS Member Joshua Everett

Freethought Radio, a production of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, interviewed LCAFS member Joshua Everett on August 16, 2012 about is article published in the La Crosse Tribune and republished in Freethought Today about The Clergy Project.

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Morality not dependent on a god

By Mike Dishnow, July 14, 2008 Morality is not dependent on belief in a deity. The fallacy is not to be found in the benefits and values of morality, vis-a-vis God or otherwise; it is in the thesis that belief … Continue reading →

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Search for Truth Leads to Rejection of Religion

By Joshua Everett, June 10, 2012 Published in the La Crosse Tribune. I am an ordained, fundamentalist evangelical Christian minister — and an atheist. It might seem counterintuitive to read such a sentence, but a surprising number of ministers are … Continue reading →

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Faith Not Required to Live Generous Life

By Maria Runde, March 18, 2012 Freethinkers — also known as humanists, agnostics, atheists and secularists — are sometimes accused by the religious of lacking charity. It is implied that belief in God and following Biblical teachings are prerequisites for … Continue reading →

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Those Who Don’t Believe in God Still Can Be Good

By Jeremy Fejfar, November 28, 2010 The case is sometimes made that belief in a god is healthy for a society, that it somehow keeps a population behaving well and not reverting back to behave in a manner more akin … Continue reading →

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No God Required to Feel Awe in the Universe

By Jeremy Fejfar, May 23, 2010 Anyone who has seen the pictures sent back by the Hubble space telescope knows that a belief in a god or the supernatural isn’t necessary to inspire awe. Through science, reality’s wonder is revealed … Continue reading →

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Yes, We Can Teach Values without God

By Kathy Ivey, March 7, 2010 Children, our most valuable resource, absorb ethical, moral and spiritual values from the adults around them. One wonders, then, how children of atheists and agnostics fare in this realm, given the prevalent (and, I … Continue reading →

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Nurturing Nonbelief: Parents Gather to Talk about Raising Kids without Religion

By Yonat Shimron, McClatchy Newspapers RALEIGH, N.C. — On Sunday mornings, when many of their contemporaries are taking their seats in church pews, a group of young parents mingle in the living room of a suburban home while their children … Continue reading →

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Some Embrace God but Turn from Religion

“I’m going to church tomorrow,” Natalie Schwinn remembers her husband saying as they fell asleep one night in fall 2007. She wasn’t expecting it. The roof top cross at the Roncalli Newman Center. Scott Weaver grew up a Christmas-Easter churchgoer, … Continue reading →

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New Group Brings Nontheists Together

Jeremy Fejfar wrote a letter to the editor last fall that reminded Hank Zumach of one of his own. In the letter, Fejfar of Holmen, Wis., critiques the position that the laws of the United States are based on the … Continue reading →

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Friendship Thrives Despite Differences in Faith

Marybeth Clark and Kathy Swanson share at least one common experience of God. As young children, each asked God to intervene in their lives and neither received an apparent answer. Now in their 60s, the friends have found themselves on … Continue reading →

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Separation of Church and State

10/26/2011- A debate between Dan Barker, co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and Dr. Paul Helseth, Northwestern College Associate Professor of Christian Thought Separation of Church and State Part 1 (MP3) Separation of Church and State Part 2 (MP3)

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Does God Exist?

On November 16, 2010 the La Crosse Area Freethought Society co-sponsored a debate with the Christian Faculty Group and the La Crosse Secular Student Society (LS3). Another very successful endeavor, drawing a very large crowd. Much thanks to Mark Chavalas … Continue reading →

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Bible: Fact or Fiction?

10/26/2008- The La Crosse Area Freethought Society (LCAFS) and the Campus Crusade for Christ co-sponsored a debate on the topic: “The Bible: Fact or Fiction? Is the Bible Reliable?” The two individuals that were selected to debate this topic were … Continue reading →

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