Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul Was Peter at Rome? It is on this day, June 29, that the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feasts of Sts. Peter and Paul. According to tradition outside the church, and required by faith within the church, during the reign of Emperor Nero, Peter was arrested and executed […]

Churches in Switzerland continued to persecute mainly women for the imagined crime of witchcraft.

Churches were silent on animal cruelty.

Martin Luther Condemned (1520) It was on this date, June 15, 1520, that Pope Leo X (p. 1513-1521) issued the Bull Exsurge Domine (Arise, O Lord), condemning Martin Luther for forty-one doctrinal errors and threatening him with excommunication if he would not recant. It is instructive to note the nature of the time and the […]

t is also important to remember that what the flag represents is more important than the physical flag itself. That is why banning the burning of the flag as a form of protest is clearly unconstitutional, as well as contradictory.

So the oppression of the peasants persisted. The churches and priests continued to ignore them in preference to their royal patrons.

Churches sometimes end up on the wining side after the battle has been won by Freethinkers!

"The heathen write that the comet may arise from natural causes, but God creates not one that does not fortoken a sure calamity."

The 1933 World's Fair celebrated a century of progress, but the foundations of that progress were freethinking and religious skepticism.

One of the leaders of the Paris Commune, Michel saw that the Commune severed all state connection to the Catholic Church, nationalized all church property, and secularized the schools.