Tag Archive: Rock Beyond Belief

Mar 22 2012

Fort Bragg’s Camp Quest is massive, Dawkins to meet with kids.

Camp Quest schedule

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 …

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Mar 22 2012

The parachute team is *not* atheist and they are forced to perform

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Justice has prevailed with one of the last big-ticket “equal levels of support” to secure. The prestigious Golden Knights are working on a way to do a demonstration jump at our event, just as they had at the Christian event – including at least one atheist. There obviously was a lot of back and forth …

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Mar 20 2012

Bragg announced the atheist event on Facebook. HELP! Troll Patrol!

I’m so proud of Fort Bragg’s embrace of the atheist festival. They just posted it prominently on their Facebook page, as promised. Predictably, the trolls are already out. Please, help us. [edit: please note there is a 2nd post that desperately needs some of your help!] Melissa wrote: “I have been praying for this, pray that …

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Mar 19 2012

Why having Nate Phelps at Fort Bragg is important

thank god for dead soldiers

People are starting to make noise about Nate Phelps joining the Reason Rally lineup last week. And for good reason: the Westboro Baptist Church / God Hates Fags hate-speech advocates may be clashing face to face with Nate (son of the infamous patriarch behind WBC, and blood-relative to nearly all them.) But I don’t think word …

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Mar 19 2012

Is our radio advertisement for the atheist festival over the top?

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 …

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Mar 16 2012

Richard Dawkins photoshopped into army fatigues = offensive? Fixed!

Richard Dawkins, The Red Coats are coming to america

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” …

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Mar 14 2012

A chaplain is telling Fort Bragg that we plan to burn down churches

Chaplain Captain Williams letter attacking Rock Beyond Belief

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 …

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Mar 13 2012

Military Community: ask Richard Dawkins anything

Richard Dawkins to speak on Fort Bragg

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 …

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Mar 12 2012

Fort Bragg: atheist festival *will* be critical of organized religion

Colonel Sicinski promises to protect statements critical of organized religion at Rock Beyond Belief

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 …

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Mar 10 2012

Between the wars, I kept the faith

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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 …

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