Freethought Almanac

This Week in Freethought History (May 12-18)

Ronald Bruce Meyer — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:00:37 +0000

Read about George Carlin, Pope Gregory and calendar reform, creating Israel, churches vs. workers, Lady Mary’s skeptical letters from Turkey, journalist Studs Terkel, getting scared sacred with “Godspell,” Bertrand Russell, and more …

This Week in Freethought History (May 5-11)

Ronald Bruce Meyer — Sat, 11 May 2013 11:00:33 +0000

Read about John William Draper’s “Conflict,” Sigmund Freud, David Hume, Edward Gibbon, The Pill and freedom for women, book burning by Nazis and other fanatics, Irving “God Bless America” Berlin, and more …

About “Game of Thrones”

Ronald Bruce Meyer — Tue, 07 May 2013 10:33:08 +0000

I’ve been thinking about Game of Thrones… Just once… I’d like to be treated to a popular TV show about a democratic republic with no kings and no thrones and nobody is better than anybody because of what family they were born into but because of great achievements in science and technology. Where the drama …

This Week in Freethought History (April 28-May 4)

Ronald Bruce Meyer — Sat, 04 May 2013 11:00:02 +0000

Read about fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett, ye Age of Chivalry, George Washington, the churches vs. working people, Catherine the Great of Russia, Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg, Darwin’s Bulldog, and more …

Terry Pratchett (1948)

Ronald Bruce Meyer — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:00:35 +0000

"There is a rumour going around that I have found God," says Pratchett. "I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist."

This Week in Freethought History (April 21-27)

Ronald Bruce Meyer — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:00:55 +0000

Read about religion vs. science in “Inherit the Wind,” “In God We Trust” on US coins, Shakespeare and God, churches vs. libraries, godless DNA described, H.C. Bastian, General Grant vs. theocracy, Mary Wollstonecraft vs. sexism and more …

This Week in Freethought History (April 14-20)

Ronald Bruce Meyer — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:00:44 +0000

Read about the churches and slavery, Leonardo da Vinci, Anatole France, the Dark Ages of Pope Benedict III, the creationist film “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” the Branch Davidian Conflagration, the Columbine Massacre and more …

This Week in Freethought History (April 7-13)

Ronald Bruce Meyer — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:00:53 +0000

Read about Francis Xavier, Buddha, musical satirist Tom Lehrer, the ASPCA vs. Christian animal cruelty, the last execution for witchcraft in Germany, Mahavira – the most famous leader of Jainism, Christopher Hitchens and more …

Cruising with Tacky Art

Ronald Bruce Meyer — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:00:08 +0000

Arguably a penis is a sex organ and breasts are not. But isn’t it just weird, considering the way the athletes are posed, that their masculinity is missing?

This Week in Freethought History (March 31-April 6)

Ronald Bruce Meyer — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:00:45 +0000

Read about René Descartes, Abraham Maslow, Camille Paglia, early environmentalist John Burroughs, comedian David Cross, philosopher Thomas Hobbes, Mormon church founder Joseph Smith and more …