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March 25, 2021March 25, 2021

Celebrating the Winter Solstice Season 2020

FFRF Member Jerry Bloom, left, of Shelton, Conn., and John Levin erected the “Let Reason Prevail” banner on the Huntington Green in Shelton.

This FFRF banner in Warren, Mich., was stolen days after being erected near the intersection of Mound and Chicago roads. A complaint about the theft of the “Keep Saturn in Saturnalia” banner has been filed with local police. FFRF thanks local FFRF Members Doug Marshall and Scott Elliott for making these displays possible FFRF has a special fund (donors may choose Resurrection Fund in the designation dropdown at ffrf.org/donate), to replace “equal time” displays on public property.

A “Celebrate the Solstice” banner waves across 8th Ave. in downtown Eugene, Ore., thanks to the work of FFRF Member Charles H. Jones.

The Bill of Rights nativity display was up outside the Glenview, Ill., Village Hall. It is situated in the middle between a lighted, rolled-steel creche decoration with a “Keep Christ in Christmas” banner erected by a Knights of Columbus group, and a menorah put up by a Chabad group,” Tom Cara said. Cara added that another Bill of Rights nativity display was up for the third year at Cook Memorial Park in Libertyville, Ill. It was put up by Steve Foulkes.

A Bill of Rights nativity display was set up by FFRF Member Will Meyer next to a Christian nativity scene on the grounds of the Grundy County Courthouse in Illinois.

In the Iowa Capitol, FFRF’s Bill of Rights nativity display marks its fourth consecutive year in the legislative heart of the Hawkeye state, thanks to the efforts of FFRF State Representative Paul Novak. A sign beside the tongue-in-cheek Nativity reads: At this season of the Winter Solstice, Join us in honoring the Bill of Rights, adopted on Dec. 15, 1791, which reminds us that there can be no religious freedom without the freedom to dissent. Keep religion and government separate!

FFRF’s Bill of Rights nativity display went up in Ricalton Square in Maplewood, N.J., thanks to the efforts of Member Steve Merhson.

In Concord, N.H., (from left to right) Elaine Clow, Gary York, Jo Shields, Jack Shields (and Friday the dog, master of all he surveys) show off the Bill of Rights nativity display.

FFRF’s Bill of Rights nativity display was set up Dec. 1 at North Park School in Arlington Heights, Ill., for the ninth year. Tom Cara, president of the FFRF Metropolitan Chicago Chapter, writes, “We’ve had three different displays over the course of that time — the Winter Solstice ‘Let Reason Prevail’ banner (which was vandalized), our 5-foot lighted Dawkins scarlet ‘A’ sign and the Bill of Rights nativity cutout.”

October 27, 2020October 27, 2020

Photos, cartoons (November 2020)

Here is the photo for this month’s caption contest. To enter, please write a witty or humorous caption for this photo. Email your response to [email protected] by Nov. 25. The winner, chosen by FFRF staff, will receive an FFRF T-shirt! We will announce the winner and runners-up in the December issue. If you’ve taken any photos that you think would be good for this contest, send them to [email protected]

Members of FFRF’s East Tennessee Chapter gather (socially distanced, of course!) in front of the FFRF billboard on Route 62 on Oak Ridge, Tenn. The billboard was up for the first half of October. From left to right: Real Van Breda (and dog Bailey), Carl Ledendecker, Alistair Elliott and Eliot Specht.

Member Peter Ellis saw this church marquee and wrote, “While driving past our local Baptist Church in York, Maine, I noticed this sign and thought, ‘Well, at least they are being honest!’”

Member Marc Mary of Louisiana sent us this photo of a convenience store marquee. “Should I ask for an application?” he writes.

To see this cartoon and hundreds more, please purchase a copy of Cartoons for the Irreverent: Celebrating the Wit of Don Addis, available through ffrf.org/shop. This unique collection published by FFRF celebrates the wit and irreverence of Don Addis, a legendary editorial cartoonist and atheist. Enjoy Don’s jokes that poke fun at religion, creationism and pious politicians. Addis’s toons will make you smile, then make you think. (Paperback, 153 pages, $15 post paid)

September 24, 2020

Photos, cartoons (October 2020)

Where do you ‘Freethought’? At 9,500 feet above mid-Michigan in my little single engine airplane. Probably the safest place to think during the pandemic! (Yes, the autopilot is flying.) David Osher Michigan

August 18, 2020

Photos, cartoons (September 2020)

FFRF member Mark Monninger of California sent us this photo of his “NODIOS” license plate, which is Spanish for “no God.”

Where do you ‘Freethought’? At the Louvre in Paris. We went and returned just prior to the shutdown. I brought my Freethought Today with my husband and we had our picture taken at the museum. Tobin Wirt and Robert King Massachusetts

This FFRF billboard has been placed in Denver, thanks to FFRF Member Monty C. Cleworth and FFRF’s Denver chapter.

August 18, 2020

o enter this month’s contest, please write a witty or humorous caption for this photo (taken outside a gun shop in El Paso, Texas). Email your response to [email protected] by Sept. 16. The winner, chosen by FFRF staff, will receive an FFRF T-shirt! We will announce the winner and runners-up in the October issue. If you’ve taken any photos that you think would be good for this contest, send them to [email protected].

July 16, 2020

Photos, cartoons (August 2020)

A mask was put on this Bucky Badger statue on the University of Wisconsin campus, not far from the national office of the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Madison. (Photo by Chris Line)

FFRF Member Hal Webre sent us this photo of a yard sign. He writes: “Laurie and I split time between sheltering-in-place at our home in northwest Florida and shelter-in-place at our second home in northeast Alabama. While in Alabama, we noticed these signs going up sporadically in residential neighborhoods. I really can’t say whether this means that God’s going to cure everyone who contracts COVID-19, or whether it means that God, himself, tested positive.”

When FFRF Member Jeff Albright saw this church marquee in Clarkston, Wash., he thought: “But what if I don’t want to?”

July 16, 2020

Caption contest winner

Congratulations to Derek Mathias of California for winning the June/July caption contest. Derek wins an FFRF T-shirt.

The winning entry is: Pugnacious Pastor Pelc, the plastic pistol-packing priest, painlessly pelts pandemic-panicked parishioners with pure papal-pleasing precipitation, proving positively that pumped potable projectiles in public places is as preposterously pointless as pious prayer in pews.

Runners-up are: Well, so much for “. . . putting away childish things” (1 Cor.13:11). — Thomas Drolsum of Wisconsin

Let us spray. — A.F. Ortiz Jr. of Florida

The sacramental wine is now available to all communicants who caught the consecrated host delivered via slingshot. — Dana Diedrich of Idaho

If you’ve taken any photos that you think would be good for this contest, please email them to [email protected].

July 16, 2020

Where do you ‘Freethought’?

Lifetime Members George and Julie Iddon catch up on their Freethought Today reading out in the Arizona desert while doing social distancing and a 14-day self-quarantine. “A couple we met out in the desert were very interested in FFRF and its work, so we gifted them a copy of Freethought Today and an annual membership,” the Iddons write. “Their permanent home is in Milwaukee and they were unaware FFRF was located in Madison. While in Arizona, we drove down to Oro Valley and met up with Diane and Steve Uhl, author of Out of God’s Closet, and had an enjoyable lunch.”

June 11, 2020June 12, 2020