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He debated the prominent [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologists]] [[William Lane Craig]], Peter van Inwagen, [[J.P. Moreland]], [[Greg Bahnsen]] and [[Richard Swinburne]]. | He debated the prominent [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologists]] [[William Lane Craig]], Peter van Inwagen, [[J.P. Moreland]], [[Greg Bahnsen]] and [[Richard Swinburne]]. | ||
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| + | == Eddie Tabash on the American atheist movement == | ||
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| + | ''See also:'' [[American atheism]] | ||
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| + | The American atheist activist [[Eddie Tabash]] said at the 2010 Michigan Atheists State Convention: | ||
| + | {{Cquote|In every generation there has been a promising beginning of a true vanguard movement that will finally achieve widespread public acceptance for nonbelief. Yet, in each generation there has been an ultimately disappointing failure to actually register the naturalistic alternative to supernatural claims in the public consciousness... | ||
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| + | Now given the confounding extent to which religion is entrenched in our society, it could take a minimum of 100 years of sustained, intense effort to even begin to cut into the current monolithic stranglehold that religion has on American mass culture, | ||
| + | <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iix6OjLH6aM Atheists Speak Up - Eddie Tabash]</ref>}} | ||
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| + | Tabash said in a 2007 speech to the Atheist Alliance International organization: | ||
| + | {{Cquote|The other likely future is one in which by a shift of only one vote on the United States Supreme Court, we will essentially become a [[theocracy]] in which all branches of government we be freed to favor [[religion]] collectively over nonbelief.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u1S3C5yWjc Eddie Tabash: Speech and Q&A at AAI 07]</ref>}} | ||
[[Category: Atheists]] | [[Category: Atheists]] | ||
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Edward Tabash, more commonly referred to as Eddie Tabash, is an American lawyer and political/social activist. Tabash is an atheist and a proponent of the strict separation of the church and state.
He chairs the Board of Directors for the Center for Inquiry.
He debated the prominent Christian apologists William Lane Craig, Peter van Inwagen, J.P. Moreland, Greg Bahnsen and Richard Swinburne.
Eddie Tabash on the American atheist movement
See also: American atheism
The American atheist activist Eddie Tabash said at the 2010 Michigan Atheists State Convention:
| “ | In every generation there has been a promising beginning of a true vanguard movement that will finally achieve widespread public acceptance for nonbelief. Yet, in each generation there has been an ultimately disappointing failure to actually register the naturalistic alternative to supernatural claims in the public consciousness...
Now given the confounding extent to which religion is entrenched in our society, it could take a minimum of 100 years of sustained, intense effort to even begin to cut into the current monolithic stranglehold that religion has on American mass culture, [1] |
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Tabash said in a 2007 speech to the Atheist Alliance International organization:
| “ | The other likely future is one in which by a shift of only one vote on the United States Supreme Court, we will essentially become a theocracy in which all branches of government we be freed to favor religion collectively over nonbelief.[2] | ” |