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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

FFRF’s caption contest

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

Former churches with better missions

Marcia Yeager sent us this photo of the former Calvary Baptist Church in Dover, Del., which is now home to AG-Industrial, an agriculture and construction equipment dealer.

This photo was given to us by Kate Retzlaff. It shows a former German Baptist church, which was built in 1872 in Milwaukee. It is now Captain Pabst’s Pilot House, a Milwaukee brewery and taproom. Brewery tours attracted about 10,000 people last year.

FFRF Member Gus Frederick sent us these photos of Angel’s Share Barrel House in Turner, Ore., a former church built in the 1890s. Gus writes: “Long vacant, it recently reopened with a bold new mission to serve this small Willamette Valley community southeast of Salem with excellent craft brews and ciders! Being a stop on the “Turner History Tour,” the deteriorating stained glass windows were replaced by local artists, with a community historical theme. ‘Angel’s Share’ refers to the small amount of brew that would naturally evaporate out of barrels as they sat and aged.”

Joseph Harrington sent us this photo of St. Michael’s Church in Baltimore, which was built in 1857 to serve German Catholic immigrants: “Closed in 2011, it reopened in January 2020 as the Ministry of Brewing.”

Dot Harrigan alerted us to this Dollar Tree retail store now housed in what used to be St. Catherine’s Church on Vine Street in Charlestown, Mass.

June 11, 2020

FFRF’s pet project

FFRF knows it’s a scary and unpredictable world out there right now, and while we continue to fight for your rights, we also hope to bring a smile to your face. So here is a look at the variety of pets of FFRF staff members, who are keeping us company as we shelter in place and work from home. We hope you enjoy. Stay safe, friends!