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Are our words ever pointless?

| Nov 16, 2012

I’ll admit I occasionally look at Twitter while I am at work.  And sometimes (just sometimes), I like to click links and read articles or see the photos of the “top 10 best and worst” of (fill in the blank).  While this is clearly not the best use of my time, I never let it get in the way of what I need to get done on any given day. Today, I happened to click on a link for the “World’s Most Pointless Protest Signs.”
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Coming up: Military Atheists

| Nov 11, 2012

Is it possible to be an atheist and serve your country in the military? Some would say no. My guest on Nov. 12 will be Jason Torpy the President of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers (MAAF), a national non-profit building community for atheists and humanists in the military. Torpy also holds seats on the board of the Secular Coalition for America, the premier lobbying organization for secular issues, and the American Humanist Association, which fosters Humanist community and ethics.
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BRIEF: Humanist leader to speak at Spokane banquet

| Oct 30, 2012

The Humanist Focus Group of Spokane will hear from the president of the American Humanist Association, David Niose, at its upcoming banquet. Niose, an attorney and author of "Nonbeliever Nation," has advocated for church/state separation and the rights of humanists and other nontheists, according to a press release.
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The biggest slice of Obama’s religious coalition? The unaffiliated

| Oct 24, 2012

The largest slice of President Barack Obama’s religious coalition -- at 23 percent --  is not very religious. They’re the “nones,” also known as unaffiliated voters, according to a new American Values Survey by the Public Religion Research Institute.
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Ranks of religiously unaffiliated rises to 1 in 5 Americans

| Oct 9, 2012

While the Pew poll on the presidential election is getting most of the recent headlines, there is another Pew poll that came out this week on religion in American that is more significant. According to the Pew Research Center, one in five American adults — nearly 20 percent of the US population — now describe themselves as religiously unaffiliated, the highest percentage ever in Pew’s polling.
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Church to host class on end times

| Oct 4, 2012

Beginning Oct. 11, Calvary Lutheran Church of Post Falls will host a weekly class called, "Revelation and the end?" Described as a class for "skeptics, atheists, free-thinkers, and people of all faith backgrounds," it will address the book of Revelation.
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If God is love, why is there suffering?

| Oct 2, 2012

This past week, one of my friends asked me about my take on 1 Corinthians 10:13, “No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.”  She, like many others, has heard this passage quoted regarding everything from cursing to those dying as a result of liver cancer or complications from AIDS.
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Christians have crosses, Jews have stars and atheists have ... what, exactly?

| Sep 25, 2012

Hester Prynne would be so proud. The red letter “A” that Nathaniel Hawthorne’s heroine was forced to wear as a badge of shame in the classic novel “The Scarlet Letter” is now proudly chosen by atheists to wear on jewelry made from ceramic, silver, gold and wood.
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VIDEO: Death Penalty Forum

| Sep 19, 2012

Panelists agreed at a forum Wednesday night that the death penalty is morally reprehensible and should be done away with in Washington state and the rest of the country.
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