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Monitor local state/church abuses

Work with the Foundation to protest clear-cut violations of the separation between church and state, such as prayers or religious instruction in public schools. Contact the Foundation office promptly with pertinent facts, names and addresses:

FFRF, Inc.
PO Box 750
Madison WI 53701
(608) 256-8900
fax (608) 204-0422
algaylor@ffrf.org

It it not easy to end violations where there is no established law or Supreme Court precedent to invoke. But a prompt complaint by a local citizen at the very least helps to educate about the importance of state/church separation, and may prevent a future or worse abuse.

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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and nonbelievers.

President Barack Obama, Inaugural Speech Jan. 20, 2009

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The more religious stories/sayings I hear the more I realize that it's all about "Vanity", I can hear this little voice in the background saying "I am so special, the most powerful entity in existence created this whole universe, for Me, a pitiful, blind, lost, pathetic little weakling like Me, and if I follow his simple little plan he will love Me, and let me live, Forever, Yay" The little voice sounds like that of a child, even though it may be coming from an old man, what do they call it, the Peter Pan syndrome? sort of a "I don't wanna grow up I'm a jesus is us kid" How old does a person have to be before they start looking at things through adult eyes, realistically and scientifically with intelligence and common sense?

Looking through the lens of my new secular viewpoint, I stopped to think about the meaning of the holidays -- why should I continue to celebrate them? What do they actually mean to me?
The winter holidays are a celebration of death and of life, of ending and of beginning, and ultimately, of hope.
Winter is a time when snow blankets the life of the land, when only pine and fir trees show the promise of spring in their enduring green. The end of the year is near, all is quiet. Winter is a time of waiting.
We wait for spring, for the earth to renew itself, for plants to bud, for the world to grow green with new life.