Jul 20 2012
Sergeant Joshua Gould is a foxhole atheist stationed at Fort Bragg. He wrote to me with two important questions, so I’m breaking them into two posts. Do you have some sort of club? So I have been reading your blog for a while and I went to the Rock Beyond Belief a few months ago. …
Jun 17 2012
The Secular Student Alliance is the best ‘chaptering’ organization in our movement… by an extremely wide margin. The number of active chapters eclipses any other organization. Their numbers still continue to grow, and they even have groups at military academies, such as West Point. When I started the Military Atheists & Secular Humanists (MASH) movement …
May 06 2012
Fort Bragg area pastor Sean Harris said that we should punch our kids if they ‘act gay’. Referring to effeminate boys he said, “Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do.” This is a brilliant sign featuring the daughter of Priscilla Parker, the new …
May 04 2012
By now you’ve probably heard about Pastor Sean Harris endorsing violence against children who demonstrate homosexual behavior. He lives here right outside of Fort Bragg. He’s a retired Sergeant Major – but don’t let that influence you, he’s batshit crazy. He’s gotten in shouting matches with our atheist group members that stretched on and on …
Apr 30 2012
I am so proud of all of you. Thanks for sticking in there and being the example to all the other MASH groups that are sprouting up. It’s up to you now. I’m leaving – I’m a recruiter now – hooray! Effective immediately, I’m quitting this group. I love you all (in god’s gay way) …
Apr 27 2012
On September 20, 2011 Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed. This was a huge victory for all the soldiers, organizations, politicians, and citizens that put their time and effort into combating DADT. Obviously, the LGBT rights issue is far from settled in the military. But here at Fort Bragg, N.C. we’ve got a special …
Apr 16 2012
When Fort Bragg denied our plan to collect canned food at the recent Rock Beyond Belief festival, the news went viral, and was even front-paged at reddit. If you haven’t read it already, you really should take a look at that article. I broke down the regulations that their lawyers were ‘creatively interpreting’ in their …
Apr 02 2012
We raised over $1200 and a pickup truck full of canned food for homeless veterans at our after party. An additional $2246 was raised here at the blog, no doubt helped by the reddit community. It was unfortunate that Fort Bragg denied us the ability to do this on post (we could have raised so …
Mar 29 2012
A local FastSigns store refused to print this sign: Yeah. Nothing in there attacking religion at all. It’s simply ‘atheist’. That one word. What the hell? They eventually changed their minds, after my team member fired off an angry response to this: From: FASTSIGNS 243 Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:04 AM Subject: MASH banner …
Mar 29 2012
Todd Stiefel takes an unconventional approach to philanthropy. He put up the $50,000 at American Atheists that made our festival possible via his Stiefel Freethought Foundation.That represents 100% of the funding. Last week, we were discussing ways to soften the blow that many Christians feel we are inflicting. We’re not attacking them at all, but it’s …
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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