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December, 1998 (Volume 0, Issue 0)

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• ABC News Special: The Power of Belief Part 2
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• Senator Sees Voodoo
• Latest Jesus Sighting (on the Lick-a-Chick building)
• Moralist's Pomp Backfires
• Biblical Signs Put To Test (Snake Handlers)
• Lightning Test Passes ("If You're Real, Strike Me Down!" [*Ka-ZA-A-APPO!!*])
• "Atheist Guy" Explains (Rob Sherman busted)
• Four To Die: Killed "Witches"
• Magic Belt Fails Initial Testing (Bullet-Protector belt)
• Cursing Your Enemies
• Priest Tries to Wake Dead
• They're Ba-a-ack! (Roman Catholic Indulgences
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• Question and Answer (College Questionnaire)
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• Answer this Question (Intelligent Believers)
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• What to do at Christmas by James Still
• Black Velvet by Anthony Burgess
• Letter: Pursuing the Question
• Letter: Millennial Madness
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• Atheism in Music Frank Zappa "Lou'siana Hooker With Herpes"
• Bible Week Decree Blocked
• The Pizza Test by Conrad Goeringer
• Pascal's Wager by Anthony Flew
• Faith and Falsehood George Eliot

November, 1998 (Volume 0, Issue 00)

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• New Magazine Wins Internet Award
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• Where's the Watchmaker? Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
• If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle. -- columnist Dave Barry
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• ABC News Special: The Power of Belief Part 1
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• Dolphin Karaoke
• Patient-Victim Wakes Up
• Buddhist Karaoke
• God Saves the Children
• Goblins vs. Aliens
• Laughing at Church
• Ziggy Comic: "Expect the Unexpected
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• The Threat that is The Promise Keepers
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• William A. Yates v. The State of New Hampshire, et. al.
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• Writers at Risk: An Editorial (Washington Post)
• Thomas Jefferson on Freedom of Religion
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• Letter: Margarita Costa
• What is Positive Atheism?

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October, 1998

• Calendar Quotation
• I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good ... Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called on by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism. -- Operation Rescue founder and Christian Reconstructionist Randall Terry in The News Sentinel (Ft. Wayne), 8-16-93
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• Humanist-Atheist Symposium
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• Anything Goes!? Hardly! Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
• Bunk Busters: Your TV Show
• One man's religion is another man's belly laugh. -- Robert A. Heinlein.
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• "Defining Atheism" by George H. Smith
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• Strategy List: 35 Dimensions of Critical Thought
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• Letters: Gettin' Creamed
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• Immortality Proven (A German tourist hurled himself to death from a Cairo tower...)
• Holy Child Taken To Foster Home (A Plainfield, Connecticut, religious sect called God's House
• Unclear On The Concept (Wendy Moricas ... received the sperm of her sister's husband Joe and bore the couple a child ... "God's will.")
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• RLPA Dead -- For Now? (Goeringer)
• Insult To Our Intelligence (Goeringer)
• Lady in Handbasket (Lady Di goes to hell)
• Membership Application and Renewal

September, 1998

• Calendar Quotation
• In this subject of the nature of the gods the first question is: do the gods exist or do they not? -- Cicero, "The Nature of Gods" (c. 51 BCE)
• We demand, and ask you to tell us, whence you have discovered, or how you have learned, whether there are these gods, whom you believe to be in heaven and serve? For it may be that beings ... of whose existence you feel assured, are found nowhere in the universe. -- Arnobius, "The Seven Books of Arnobius" (c. 300 CE)
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• Oregon Humanist-Atheist Symposium
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• A Good Hard Look Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
• ... and what you can do with it! (the money stamp)
• W.W.J.D.: Why Won't Jesus Die? -- Student parody of the popular "What Would Jesus Do?" movement "symbolizing the ever-present annoyance of bible pushers and fetus-tossing christians. Why don't they just get over it? Let the wacko die already!"
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• Unconstitutional Religious Expression in the Public Schools (This is a copy of the testimony given to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission on Friday, August 21, 1998 by Ellen Johnson, President of American Atheists.)
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• Media Health Coverage Challenged by Kevin Courcey
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• Who Am I? by John Patrick Michael Murphy
• Rachael Lighted Off Her Camel (Virgin Mary to promote smoking in East)
• Where Church Equals State (Taliban; Teheran)
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• Clinton Is Not An Adulterer by Larry Judkins
• Kentucky Enacts Luke 22:36 (Preachers carry concealed weapons)
• A Real Promise Keeper (Pro football star Sean Gilbert)
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• Lüdemann Renounces Christianity by Jeffery Jay Lowder
• Christian Groups Buy Anti-Gay Ads by Cliff Walker
• DIVORCE ... Religious Style (Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn: Rabbis arrange to have husbands beaten up)
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• Taboo Excepted (Israeli human receives a pig's heart)
• What Would Jesus Do? (workers nailed themselves to wooden crosses)
• Chance Still Works Better (Alexander Buzinov, astrologer for the Russian Military)
• One or the other ... (House painter David Maas steals 11 statues and figurines for new Noah's Ark)
• Church Reviews its Crime (Catholic Review of Inquisitions)
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August, 1998

• Calendar Quotation
• ... if devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
• ... the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind. -- Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"
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• History In The Making: The First Oregon Humanist-Atheist Symposium
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• Change And Growth Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
• USA Still Has DARWINs!
• And when your soul / Tells you to hide / Your very right / To die's denied. -- The Who, "Quadrophenia" (1973)
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• The Concept of God by George H. Smith from "Atheism: The Case Against God"
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• Some Offerings For Southern Baptist Leaders by Steve Blow, The Dallas Morning News, June 26, 1998
• Doubting Inspiration by Robert Green Ingersoll -- No. 20 from his pamphlet "61 Reasons for Doubting the Inspiration of the Bible"
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• Oregon Atheists, Freethinkers Protest Promise Keepers: What Message Do We Send To The Media, Though?
• 'I Promise' God Is A Myth by Lanny Swerdlow
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• FFRF Bids On Soledad Land by Ray Hurd, San Diego Union Tribune
• Prayer Still Out: School Violence Down by Conrad Goeringer
• Page 9
• Letters: Hanoia
• He Was No Atheist (preacher describing school-prayer killer Michael Carneal)
• New Beer Stops Radiation
• Membership Application and Renewal

July, 1998

• Calendar Quotation
• A doctrine which is to maintain itself not in clear light but only in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress. -- Albert Einstein
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• Evangelicals Vow To Reclaim America from AP (Published as an example of irresponsible journalism in that it questions no claims.)
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• At a Loss for Words Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
• Oregon Atheist Convention
• Before anything can be admitted as proved by the Bible, the Bible itself must be proved to be true. -- Thomas Paine
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• The Death of Theism: Ideologies, Text And Tradition by John Bowden
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• Reuters-Yahoo Pulls Stories
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• The Death of Theism: In Search of God: Is Atheism the Only Alternative to Theism? by Bishop John Shelby Spong
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• Atheist Equality Amendment?
• Priest Stabs Self; Files False Report
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• A Criticism Of My Church by Gerd L demann
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• An Escape From Agnosticism by George H. Smith
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• Ten Commandments Defense Act Introduced by Conrad Goeringer
• Which Ten Commandments?: The Second Tablets of Stone by Joseph Lewis
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• Judge Invokes Scripture; Sentence Overturned
• Under Pressure, Of Course!: Mormon Church Stops Tutoring in Schools
• Foil Stops Moonbeams
• Funeral Director Inserts Voodoo Dolls Into Corpse
• Letters: Concerning your editorial dated July, 1997 "Did Rodman Have a Point?"
• Letters: Cliff Walker Responds:
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• Declaration Is Latest Religious Effort To Keep Women In Their Places by Evelyn B. Sherr, Corvallis, Letter to the Editor, The Oregonian, July 6, 1998
• Membership Application and Renewal

June, 1998

• Calendar Quotation
• He thought that the 'ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age' and, although he admitted that 'many eminent servants of humanity have been nominal Christians', he considered their services 'have not been in consequence of their adhesion to Christianity, but in spite of it'. -- Jim Herrick on (and quoting) Charles Bradlaugh
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• ACLU Files Pledge Suit
• Elvis Credit Card
• Where Church Equals State (Taleban beards)
• Virgin Mary Blood Tested
• Pastor Resigns
• Church Doesn't Exist
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• The Year 2000 Blues Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
• The USA Needs You!
• Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced. -- Auguste Comte
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• The Quintessence of Gora by Mahaboob Adam
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• Bumper Snickers: Isaac Asimov
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• The Flat-Earth Bible by Robert J. Schadewald
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• The Latter-Day Saints: A Case Study in History Revision
• Intro by Cliff Walker
• New Mormon Book: Brigham Young Had One Wife
• Mormons May Disavow Old View on Blacks
• Mormon Plan to Disavow Racist Teachings Jeopardized by Publicity
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• Membership Application and Renewal

May, 1998

• Calendar Quotation
• A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. -- Albert Einstein
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• Atheists: The Controversy Explodes
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• Reflections On The "A" Word Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
• Barbara Coombs Lee
• Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity. -- Luther Burbank
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• Is Science a Religion? by Richard Dawkins
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• Most Distant Object Seen
• Page 7 Couple Cuts Baby's Tongue
• Faith Healer Charged With Ax Murders
• Phone Sex Blessing
• Where Church Equals State: Dead Quizzed On Policy
• Tried to Predict Lottery: Monk Steals Snake Eggs
• King David Would Be Proud: Trivia Contest Settled
• Where Church Equals State: Know Your Bible
• Chairman Stabs Doll
• She Thrust Her Fist Against The Post: Mondale Daughter Saw Ghost
• Where Church Equals State: Amputation As Sporting Event
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• Nonexistent Prophecies Claimed In The New Testament by Winston Wu annotated by Cliff Walker
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• Redundancy Of The Month: Beware Of Fake Monks
• Where Church Equals State: Sentence Commuted
• Atheism In Music: "Cosmik Debris" By Frank Zappa
• Membership Application and Renewal

April, 1998

• Calendar Quotation
• They seem to be able to grasp the concept that they don't believe in 4,999 out of the 5,000 gods that mankind has endorsed, but they don't understand why I disbelieve in one more god than they do. -- CRT member Nancy Powell
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• Lecture: Scientific vs. Religious Dating
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• The 'Have Your Cake & Eat It Too' Badge Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
• Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. -- Woody Allen
• Come See Our New Headquarters
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• From the Playboy Forum, December, 1996: The Ethical Voice: How We Acquire Virtue by Ted C. Fishman
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• Member Nancy Powell in the Hot Seat on: The Tom Leykis Show: Complete! Not one arrogant blither left unchallenged! Broadcast nationally on March 31, 1998
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• Busy Moralists
• Martin Moreno in Pomona, California, charged with stealing, from clotheslines, underwear too revealing for women to wear in public.
• Hong Kong,"knight of God" Syed Atta Muhammad assaulted a tour guide, whose breasts were too big to serve God because they made her look like a prostitute.
• Dayton Daily News: local libraries ... vandal targets books that are "an affront to public decency [and that] corrupt young children." Makes his point by smearing the books with human feces.
• Protestant minister Hans Visser to begin a social program of supplying heroin at discount prices to "hopeless" addicts in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• Jamaican church leaders protested against gay pop vocal group "The Village People."
• Providence? or Stupidity? (Des Moines, Iowa, Kenneth Ray Bruner, stepson of Pentacostal minister led his seven accomplices in prayer three weeks earlier, asking for God's protection just before they set out to knock off Herman's Fine Jewelry.
• "Quantum" Mysticism by Howard Thompson The Texas Atheist, March 16, 1998 (Dr. Vic Stenger refreshingly debunked what he calls "quantum" mysticism at the University of Texas at Austin.)

March, 1998

• Calendar Quotation
• All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. -- Thomas Paine
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• Cheap Monks (The Cheap labor of Buddhist monks from China)
• The Dead Look Up (casino above burial ground: "Imagine our relatives lying here, looking up at the floor of a casino.")
• Stopping Stubborn Religionists: Gideons Off Campus (December 7, 1997 -- Gideons are no longer allowed to distribute Christian New Testament Bibles at public schools in Wahpeton, North Dakota.)
• They Thank God (Chile's permanent base in the Antarctic got a telephone. "Thanks be to God that the firm Entel Chile has donated a telephone." Entel could not tell him when the line would be hooked up.)
• Reconstructive Virginity (Dutch surgeons restore the semblance of virginity for young immigrant women)
• Plan Covers Suicide (Oregon Health Plan will pay for physician-assisted suicide services)
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• The Tents Will Be With You Always Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
• Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
• Second Tuesday; We Are Moving!
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• The Sex Lies Of The Religious Right: How Conservatives Distort The Facts by Marty Klein
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• Study Refutes Both Views (University of Washington study: the husband is willing to acquiesce completely to his wife)
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• Sex Lies Refuted
• Obscenity Trial Begins For Anti-Jesus T-Shirt by Cliff Walker February 16, 1998
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• Little-Known U.S. Document Signed by President Adams Proclaims: America's Government is Secular by Jim Walker, The Early America Review, Summer, 1997
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• Wall Owned by Muslims (due to a bureaucratic oversight, the Western Wall is owned by a Muslim group)
• Sect to Patent Star (Rosicrucians sought permission to patent the Star of David)
• Atheists Stage Vigil for Slain Officer
• Goose Twelve Quick (learned how to get in touch with their "inner jerk.")
• Trappists Settle Dispute (Brother Eric Metivier stabs Brother Fernard Bremaud at the Trappist Fathers monastery near Holland, Manitoba)
• Pastor Hurls Boy, 14 (preacher at Independent Baptist Church in Hillsboro, Illinois, demonstrating how God will pitch the Devil into Hell on Judgment Day, grabbed a nearby 12-year-old boy and tossed him about six feet)
• Church Youth Activity (Sacramento Bee: East Valley Foursquare Church in Orangevale, California, play "Bambi Baseball." The bat: the frozen leg of a deer; a frozen cow tongue was the ball; swinging a frozen trout to hit a frozen squid)
• Membership Application and Renewal

February, 1998

• Calendar Quotation
• Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought. -- Annie Besant (1847-1933)
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• Vigil for Robert Sanderson by Nancy Powell, Chris Kerchum, and Cliff Walker
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• On Truth And Credibility Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
• He who dies with the most religion is still dead. -- bumper sticker
• Second Tuesday Still Going Strong
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• Atheism and the Virtue of Reasonableness from the book Atheism, Ayn Rand, and other Heresies by George H. Smith
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• Remember: Prompt payment of your dues ensures that you will continue to receive your copy of the Critical Thinker.
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• California Religious Freedom Protection Act Passes by Conrad Goeringer January 27, 1998
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• Baptist Convention President "Forgot" (Dr. Henry Lyons told committee he was single; had been married and divorced twice: forgot those marriages [Lyons later indicted for embezzling church-fire funds])
• Alabama Democrats Court Fundamentalists
• Frontiers In Medicine (Three Penis Wine)
• Al Gore Smears Atheists by Conrad Goeringer January 23, 1998
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• Lock That Barn Door Now! by Carol Faulkenberry
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• Judge Moore Wins -- For Now (UPI; Reuters)
• Basic Issues Remain Unanswered Two Rulings Based On Technical Points by Conrad Goeringer January 24, 1998
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• The Wackiest Story in the Bible Is: The Biblical Tale of the Golden Hemorrhoids.
• Goat-Dropping Ceremony (Manganeses de la Polvorosa, Spain)
• Vegetables (puzzlingly-named Vegetarian Festival is the scene of spectacular demonstrations of self-mutilation)
• Holy Communion (of Father Laurence Brett: "He told me [fellatio] was okay because it was just another way of taking Holy Communion.")
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• Where History Comes From: Israel Schoolbook Erases Palestinians January 27, 1998 (AP)
• "That's a no-no": Monk Arrested, Kicked Worshipper
• Heard this before? Preacher Begs for Mercy
• Where Church Equals State: (Chechnya's Islamic Supreme Court: "We don't beat [women] with our bare hands. We use sticks.")
• Sexual Deviants to be Bound and Whipped (Johor Baru Religious Affairs Department in Malaysia announced)
• Polygamy NOW! (National Organization for Women Utah Office ... praised multi-wife polygamy as an alternative for feminists)
• Nature Honors Kim (North Korean communist party, "dear leader" Kim Jong Il ... fantastic natural phenomena were occurring to mark the occasion)
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• Atheism in Music:
• Greatest Love of All by Michael Masser and Linda Creed recorded by Whitney Houston
• Superstition by Stevie Wonder
• Wartime Witch May Be Pardoned
• Membership Application and Renewal

January, 1998

• Calendar Quotation
• I believe in separation of church and state. I cannot, as a public official, impose my religious views on people who do not share those views. -- Lucy Killea, California Legislator
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• Cyber-Christ for Mayor (walked in wearing a curly black wig and carrying a guitar and a red pillow shaped like lips, claiming he was Jesus)
• Magic Kingdom In Reverse ($1.6 billion Holy Land theme park including a 33-story statue of Jesus, large models of Noah's Ark, parting of the Red Sea)
• Vatican Bilks NYC (diplomatic arm of the Vatican incurred eight tickets, totaling $500 in fines)
• Demons Hiss at Police Chief's Rebuke (fired based on reports of her excessively Christian law enforcement)
• Er, Nude Church Softball? (he was merely working on his tan because he was on a church softball team)
• Pathfinder Trespass Suit (claiming that the Pathfinder Mars probe is trespassing on their planet "inherited from our ancestors 3,000 years ago")
• Baptist Antics (Pastor, of Congregation: "It's a good thing I'm a Christian. They're gonna owe me [even more money] by the time I get done with their butts.")
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• Atheists In And Out Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
• One broken leg is better than two, but still it is not a source of joy. -- Thomas Paine
• Second Tuesday: Boy Scout Update
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• Why I am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell March 6, 1927; National Secular Society, South London Branch; Battersea Town Hall
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• Comics: Atheist Jerry Billings renders an unexpurgated Bible ever more suitable for children and polite company.
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• "Freedom of Expression" in Alabama? Maybe Not ... Two Freethinkers' Signs, Professing Non-Belief, Are Stolen From Alabama State Capitol Grounds by Conrad Goeringer
• Holy War Takes 412 (Gangs armed with knives, axes, hoes and shovels methodically slaughtered 412 peasants in four poor western villages)
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• The American Heretic's Dictionary by Chaz Bufe
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• Pat, Off Camera (Robertson said the group should raise its political intensity by looking to the notorious machine politics of Chicago and New York's Tammany Hall as models)
• Priest Loves 'Em And Leaves 'Em (admitted he debauched a dozen women parishioners over a 20-year period)
• Born-Again Muffins (Convicted Child Pornographer: "They were earth angels. I renew my promises to the girls as a born-again Christian that I will always love them and protect them.")
• Faith Mitigates Sentence (Judge cited delusional disorder characterized by "unchecked religious fervor," in that Bennet believed any conduct was justified if it served God)
• Faith mitigates Sentence (Judge cited defendant's three daughters, who by law of the Bobov Hasidim must rely on their father to find husbands for them)
• Cooler Heads Prevail (Arsonist: "I probably thought about that fire, and it just happened.")
• Aunt Jemima Remains Steadfast (Like Betty Crocker, the new Jesus image to have traces of Asian, African, and Indian features in his face)
• Membership Application and Renewal