Wednesday, September 10, 2008  FFRF "Imagine a World Without
Religion"  Here is a useful coincidence.  The day after I write
a post discussing the difference between presenting ideas and
presenting reasons for action, I get an email from American
Humanist praising the Freedom from Religion Foundation for
running an advertisement in the New York Times linking religion
to the destruction of the World Trade Center.  The advertisement
is an image of the World Trade Center when it still stood,
accompanied by the text, "Imagine a world free from religion."
When the Connecticut Valley Atheists put a similar sign before
the city center as a part of a Christmas display, I wrote a set
of posts on the bigotry expressed by such a remark. Connecticut
Valley Atheists - Imagine, Communication, Causation, and
Condemnation, and Speech Proposal  Yet, here we are again, with
a national organization flagrantly advertising in a major
newspaper that Atheists are just as capable of being fear-
mongering bigots as any religious pers