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I have been writing a weekly column for FāVS for three years next week. If my count is right, this is my 160th column.

Known as the Atheist Street Pirates, the group formed in 2021 as a subset of the LA-based Atheists United, a nonprofit that’s been in the city for 40 years and that seeks to “empower people to express secular values and promote separation of government and religion.” The street pirates’ goal is to clear city streets of religious propaganda.

Recently I’ve been preparing for the inevitable. Last month, I reached an age at which I can say, “Four score and seven years ago, my mother brought forth on this continent a new baby ...” That was me. I’ve never been 87 before, never dreamed I’d make it this far. I’d wondered whether I’d see the turn of this century! But I did, so what’s next?

There is evil in this world. I have seen it. And I have experienced it.

There are no sacred texts in my life. As I have written here before, I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

In a philosophical sense atheism is at ground a rejection of supernatural entities as informative principles