atheists

President Obama “regularly puts nonbelievers on the same footing as religious Americans,” the Wall Street Journal notes today, recalling especially his inaugural-address shout-out: “We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.” The article, like others before it, cites a 2006 University of Minnesota study of American attitudes toward atheists as [...]

For the first time in history, people who don’t believe in a god or gods got a mention by a president in an inaugural address. The mention of one word has atheists, agnostics, humanists and free thinkers feeling welcome under the new administration.
In his address on Tuesday, Barack Obama said, “We are a nation of [...]

Separation of church and state advocates lost their injunction to stop prayer and references to God at the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. The Minnesota Atheists were among several groups that brought the injunction as part of a lawsuit seeking to end religious references at the inauguration. The case was heard in U.S. District Court [...]