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ORGANIZATIONS

American Humanist Association

Atheist Alliance International

American Atheists

Atheists for Human Rights

Brights Network

The Bertrand Russell Society

Center for Inquiry

The Center for Naturalism

Council for Secular Humanism

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Godless Americans PAC

International Humanist & Ethical Union

Internet Infidels

Military Religious Freedom Foundation

Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers

National Secular Society

Rationalist International

Secular Coalition for America

Secular Student Alliance

Skeptic Society

Unitarian Universalist Infidels

U.S. LOCAL GROUPS BY STATE

OTHER IMPORTANT SITES

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State

Atheists.com

Atheism at About.com

Atheist Empire

Atheist Parents Group

Center for Inquiry Libraries

Freethought Books - Independent Publications

The Great American God-Out

Holy Smoke

Humanist Center

The Humanist Society

Institute for Humanist Studies

James Randi Educational Foundation

No Beliefs

The Official Richard Dawkins Website

Positive Atheism

Skeptic Friends Network

The Secular Web

Theocracy Watch: The Faith-Based Initiative

Theological Updates

WhyWontGodHealAmputees.com

The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal

MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS

Positive Atheism Magazine

Reason Magazine

The Secular Humanist Bulletin

The Skeptic's Dictionary

Truth Seeker

AUDIO AND VIDEO

Equal Time for Freethought

Extreme Bible Stories

Beyond Belief 2006 Videos

Beyond Belief 2007 Videos

"Growing Up in the Universe" Videos

"The Four Horsemen" Videos

Richard Dawkins: Root of Evil?

Proving that prayer is superstition

Proving that nobody can get into heaven

Proving that the Bible is repulsive

Proving that God's Plan is impossible

Prove that Jesus is imaginary in less than 5 minutes

Why do Atheists care about Religion?

Infidel Guy on YouTube

Atheist on the Bible, Part 1: Original Sin & God's Plan

Crazy Christians

Atheist Empire's Multimedia & Downloads

"There is No God," by Penn Jillette, on NPR's "This I Believe"

The Exquisite Truth Podcast Site

BLOGS AND DISCUSSION BOARDS

Atheist Blogs Aggregated

Capella's Guide to Atheism

Daylight Atheism

Debunking Christianity

Dispatches from the Culture Wars

The End Of Faith - Discussion Forum

Infidel Bloggers Alliance

Intergalactic Hussy

Internet Infidels Discussion Board

WhyWontGodHealAmputees.com, The Forum

FOR FUN

Darwin Awards

Flying Spaghetti Monster

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Invisible Pink Unicorn

List of Fictional Religions

Kibology

Church of the SubGenius

Evil Atheist Conspiracy

Intelligent Falling

Project Steve

Landover Baptist Church

Betty Bowers

Freethinker Matchmaker

REFERENCE

ABOUT FREETHOUGHT AND SOME OF ITS FLAVORS

Freethought

What Is A Freethinker?

A History of Freethought

An Introduction to Atheism

Atheism 101

Why Not Believe? Reasons Why Atheists Don't Believe in Gods

Defining Atheism and Religion

Arguments Against God: Atheological Arguments for Atheism

Atheism - Common Arguments

A Secular Humanist Declaration

Secular Humanism Library

Secular Ethics

Scientific Skepticism

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

Thomas Jefferson: Draft for a Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia, 1779

Thomas Jefferson: Common Law and Christianity

Thomas Jefferson: Letter to the Danbury Baptists (Draft Version), 1802

Thomas Jefferson: Letter to the Danbury Baptists (Final Version), 1802

James Madison on Separation of Church and State

James Madison: Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785

Excerpts from Madison's Detached Memoranda

Thomas Paine's Age of Reason

US Government: Bill of Rights

U.S. National Mottos

Quotations that Support the Separation of State and Church

The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State

The Ten Commandments

Which Ten Commandments?

Which Ten Commandments? (pdf)

The Jefferson Bible

Is America a Christian Nation?

It�s a free country, not a Christian nation

School Prayer

ARGUMENTS AGAINST RELIGION AND GOD

Skeptic's Annotated Bible

Skeptic's Annotated Book of Mormon

Skeptic's Annotated Quran

"The Improbability of God," by Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins: The Root of All Evil

Criticism of Religion

"Bible Contradictions," by Jim Meritt

Bible Contradictions

New Testament Contradictions

The Accuracy of the Gospels

Biblical Nonsense

Agnostic Review of Christianity

Mysticism and the Paranormal

Fifteen Answers to Creationist Nonsense

Psychology of Religion

Russell's Teapot

Occam's Razor

Proving a Negative

Arguments against the existence of God

Logical Arguments Against God

God is Imaginary

Religiosity and Intelligence

Faith and Rationality

Science and Religion

Faith and Reason

"Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer" by Benedict Carey, New York Times, March 31, 2006

"Study calls prayer for sick people ineffective Rate of problems after surgery unchanged by act" by Rob Stein, Washington Post, March 31, 2006

"Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side'" by Ruth Gledhill, UK Times Online, September 27, 2005

"Religious Belief & Societal Health - New Study Reveals that Religion Does Not Lead to a Healthier Society" by Matthew Provonsha, Skeptic, September 2005

"If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only Natural" by Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post, May 28, 2007

"Emory Brain Imaging Studies Reveal Biological Basis For Human Cooperation," Science Daily, July 18, 2002

"Science of the Soul? 'I Think, Therefore I Am' Is Losing Force" by Cornelia Dean, June 6, 2007

"Rats influenced by the kindness of strangers," NewScientist.com, July 6, 2007

More Reference Material

SCIENCE AND REASON

Stephen Hawking's Universe

Formation and Evolution of the Solar System

Evolutionary Psychology

Reciprocal Altruism

Tit for Tat Strategy in Game Theory

Prisoner's Dilemma

"Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies," by Gregory S. Paul, Journal of Religion and Society, 2005

"Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients: A multicenter randomized trial of uncertainty and certainty of receiving intercessory prayer," by Herbert Benson, MDal, Jeffery A. Dusek, PhDal, Jane B. Sherwood, RNm, Peter Lam, PhDm, Charles F. Bethea, MDb, William Carpenter, MDivc, Sidney Levitsky, MDd, Peter C. Hill, MDe, Donald W. Clem Jr., MAf, Manoj K. Jain, MD, MPHg, David Drumel, MDivgh, Stephen L. Kopecky, MDi, Paul S. Mueller, MDj, Dean Marekk, Sue Rollins, RN, MPHb, Patricia L. Hibberd, MD, PhDlm, American Heart Journal, received 5 January 2005; accepted 6 May 2005

"Demographics of Atheism" Wikipedia

"Demographics of the United States" Answers.com

"U.S. divorce rates for various faith groups, age groups, & geographic areas," ReligiousTolerance.org

"SURVEY INDICATES MORE AMERICANS "WITHOUT FAITH," American Atheists, November 22, 2001

RELIGION IN THE WORLD AT THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM - Gallup International Millennium Survey

"Baptists have highest divorce rate," The Associated Press, December 30, 1999

QUOTES

Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations

Quotations of Freethought and Religion

Great Freethinker Quotes

Thinking Quotes

OTHER DOCUMENTS AND REFERENCE

"Descent of Man," by Charles Darwin (1871)

"The Origin of Species," by Charles Darwin (1872)

Historical Documents - Author Index (writings before 1970)

Modern Documents - Author Index (writings after 1970)

Biographies and Archives

Secular Web Reference Desk

Godless Links

The Council of Orange (529)

Amsterdam Declaration

American Secular Union

Newdow Oral Argument Transcript of the "under God"/Pledge of Allegiance Case

"Freethinker Rock Removed from Comfort Park" by Howard Thompson

"The Great Scandal: Christianity's Role in the Rise of the Nazis" by Gregory S. Paul

Winter Solstice Celebrations

History Channel: History of Christmas - Christmas Trees

All About the Christmas Tree

The Origins of the Christmas Tree