Oct 07 2012
Fort Bragg Patch reporter, Kelly Twedell, has a nice write-up about how the U.S. Air Force Academy undermined a planned speaking engagement from Richard Dawkins at the last minute. Via Fort Bragg Patch …The U.S. Air Force Academy has pulled out of their commitment with no concrete reasons to host a previously planned speaking engagement …
Oct 05 2012
The details are still unclear, but the U.S. Air Force Academy is no longer a viable host for a planned Richard Dawkins speaking engagement. Despite the last-minute military venue ‘no-go’, the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science secured the large Macky Auditorium at the University of Colorado at Boulder for Monday, October 15th. Military members are …
Jun 02 2012
20 years into the ministry… Teresa MacBain spent more than two decades as a Baptist and Methodist minister under the tutelage of her father. She worked as a worship minister, an associate pastor and a senior pastor of her own church. March of this year she finally stepped out of the religious closet and entered …
May 20 2012
PZ does ‘it’…? By ‘it’ I mean ‘PZ supports the troops’, and not just his son who is an officer in the US Army. Paul Loebe is a foxhole atheist in the United States Marine Corps. Paul is leading a small group of people toward the front line of a subterranean culture war that the …
Apr 08 2012
The Religious Antagonist was causing quite a stir at the AA Convention in Washington D.C. Everyone was talking about the guy who Richard Dawkins told to ‘fuck off’. Nobody warned me, but I think I handled myself alright. He cut out one thing from our conversation. I’m paraphrasing: Religious Antagonist: “Do atheists have bigger holes than …
Apr 08 2012
Baba Brinkman slayed the crowd with his extensive lexicon and concise delivery at Fort Bragg last weekend. Then he wrote to all of his fans about it: Last weekend Mr. Simmonds and I traveled to Fort Bragg, NC for Rock Beyond Belief, the historical first on-base rock concert for military non-believers. The day got off to …
Mar 22 2012
I asked Camp Quest, South Carolina’s (CQSC) Amy Monsky for a schedule of her activities. I’m super impressed. Look at this thing, it represents so much work. Click to embiggen… this is pretty much amazing. So much is going on there! This is in addition to the 400 pounds of corn starch going into making the …
Mar 19 2012
Well yes, yes it is. But we like to have fun here. Rock Beyond Belief radio ad This is our ‘demo tape’ for the atheist festival on Fort Bragg. We’d only do something along these lines for the rock station. NPR just doesn’t seem like a good place for “AIDEN WILL RUIN YOUR FAMILY AND …
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 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 …
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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