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Revision as of 02:43, July 1, 2016
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==The name of the Foundation==
==The name of the Foundation==
The Constitution guarantees us rights to free exercise, such as free speech, freedom of religion, and the right to bear arms. The name of the Foundation, "Freedom ''From'' Religion Foundation," does not reflect a Constitutional right. For example, no one has freedom ''from'' speech; likewise, the idea of freedom ''from'' religion is fallacious.
The Constitution guarantees us rights to free exercise, such as free speech, freedom of religion, and the right to bear arms. The name of the Foundation, "Freedom ''From'' Religion Foundation," does not reflect a Constitutional right. For example, no one has freedom ''from'' speech; likewise, the idea of freedom ''from'' religion is fallacious.
=== Freedom From Religion Foundation and the War on Christmas ===
''The Telegraph'' reported about the [[Freedom From Religion Foundation]] (FFRF) and the [[War on Christmas]]:
{{cquote|Across the United States, many of the FFRF’s 23,000 members have mobilised to ban Jesus from classroom plays, silence school choirs and take down nativity scenes.
At this time of year, Mr Barker said, his office is transformed into a war room: "It really ramps up. Our legal staff get ready, writing template letters for each state and district, ready to deploy them at any moment."<ref>[American atheists go to war against Christmas], The Tegraph</ref>}}
The ''Horn News'' reported:
{{cquote|For the seventh year in a row, the anti-religion activists at the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) have erected an outrageous sign outside the Illinois state house denouncing Christmas and Christianity.
[[Dan Barker]], FFRF co-president, said his group is opposed to the nativity scenes and other Christian symbols that appear on public spaces during the holiday season. So the atheist organization wants equal space to spread its anti-religion rhetoric during the Christmas season.
The Illinois state house grounds now feature an offensive red and green sign that reads, “At this season of the Winter Solstice, may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.”
And the FFRF is not stopping at Illinois.
FFRF has announced plans to erect similar signs at the Texas and Florida state houses.
This isn’t the only attack to remove Christmas from the public view, either. Already this month the anti-religion organization put up a “Reasons Greetings” (an attack on the term Season’s Greetings) display at the Warren, Michigan city hall.
The organization also recently announced a lawsuit that has banned the Concord Community Schools in Indiana from performing their traditional live nativity scene at the school’s 2015 Christmas Spectacular holiday concert.<ref>[https://thehornnews.com/you-wont-believe-this-atheist-attack-on-christmas/ You won’t believe this atheist attack on Christmas], The Horn News]</ref>}}
==Misleading information on website==
==Misleading information on website==
"It [The Constitution] is vital to buttress the Jeffersonian "wall of separation between church and state" which has served our nation so well."
"It [The Constitution] is vital to buttress the Jeffersonian "wall of separation between church and state" which has served our nation so well."
*The "Jeffersonian 'wall of separation between church and state'" is not in the US Constitution at all! In fact, it was written in a letter by Jefferson ''over ten years after the First Amendment was ratified'', and furthermore, Jefferson was the least religious of all the early Presidents. Jefferson himself played no role in the formation of the Constitution. A better guiding principle is that expressed in George Washington's Farewell Address: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports."
*The "Jeffersonian 'wall of separation between church and state'" is not in the US Constitution at all! In fact, it was written in a letter by Jefferson ''over ten years after the First Amendment was ratified'', and furthermore, Jefferson was the least religious of all the early Presidents. Jefferson himself played no role in the formation of the Constitution. A better guiding principle is that expressed in George Washington's Farewell Address: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports."
==Wisconsin and Washington State Capitol signs==
==Wisconsin and Washington State Capitol signs==