Mar 16 2012
I forgot that last time I posted Richard Dawkins photoshopped into the soldier ACU digital camouflage, that some service members were kind of offended. I want to make up for it. I’ll just leave this here. I just hope Richard lets me down gently if he doesn’t like it. Anybody know if “The Redcoats are coming” …
Mar 16 2012
I don’t have real words for this. This is why we can’t back down, and we can’t fail. If America needs to have this conversation, so be it. Atheists think about and care about all the same shit you do. We ask all the same questions. We just sometimes have a different answer. Spc. Jose …
Mar 15 2012
Reddit’s atheist community has been extremely kind to the Rock Beyond Belief festival.Without their overwhelming support and pleas for me to keep them informed, I might have given up. But a recent picture in a news story made me think back to a surreal moment on reddit. One of my favorite things that I learned …
Mar 15 2012
I get email, too: There are no atheists in foxholes buddy they all cry out to God when the shells are raining in. To hold an antheist event on a military post is unacceptable. Leave people alone and quit pushing your views on people. Without GOD our country wouldnt be what it is today and …
Mar 14 2012
FORT BRAGG, NC – Chaplain (Captain) Chuck Williams wrote an open letter on Fort Bragg’s Facebook page calling for the cancellation of on-post secular festival Rock Beyond Belief. Cpt. Williams claims, “It has now been made blatantly public by [event] organizers that part of this event will be… glorifying violence against people who possess a …
Mar 13 2012
We just released official schedule for the Rock Beyond Belief festival on Fort Bragg 31 March (civilians welcome!) We want to invite any military member, veteran, or military spouse to submit a question in the comments section here. You will notice the “Richard Dawkins Q&A video“. It simply must be. There are too many variables that …
Mar 12 2012
Thanks to the efforts of my high ranking cyber-stalker, Fox News picked up a bogus story taking lyrics way out of context. The backlash could have threatened the entirety of the festival lineup at RBB. The short-term desired affect was achieved. Fort Bragg was pressured get me and all of the performers to sign a promise not …
Mar 10 2012
This is the type of faith I have. I kept the faith and I kept voting Not for the iron fist but for the helping hand For theirs is a land with a wall around it And mine is a faith in my fellow man Billy Bragg – Between the Wars I’m secretly hoping that …
Mar 10 2012
David Silverman, President of American Atheists, forwarded this to me. People need to read this. I wish to detail my experiences over the past 10 years of consistent and continual harassment and religious indoctrination thoughout my military career. In June of 2001, I left for recruit training at MCRD San Diego. During recruit training, church …
The free festival on Fort Bragg's Main Post Parade Field was a massive success! Expect updates, highlights, and other footage over the next few months.
UPDATE: A second festival is in the works for Camp Pendleton - a large Marine Corps base near San Diego, CA. Summer 2013
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Mar 17 2012
“The military needs god’s protection not some wacko like you”
Atheist
by Justin Griffith
I am the recipient of comments. Sometimes I’ll get a rapid-fire volley from a single person, too impulsive to resist the warm embrace of the ‘submit’ button. Their brains are mid-explosion, possibly their underpants too. Like this: This person says that I need to get out of the military and America. Then he went on for …
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