Who can you trust? 

by Groff Schroeder

Most Americans are not aware of the current Holy War engaging our country. This is not our nation’s battle against Muslim Al Quaeda and the Taliban, but another quiet war being waged as a “birthing contest” between Christians and non-Christians.
 

My step-daughter works for Planned Parenthood. She asked me to tell my readers about Christian terrorism right here in the United States.

She said: "Do your readers have any idea what it is like to go to work day after day wondering if there is some Christian nut waiting with a bomb or gun for you?" "Do your readers have any idea what it is like to get obscene and threatening phone calls every day, to get threatening letters in the mail every week?"

Her office has been hit once with a bomb.

Let's stop this liberty stuff before it gets out of hand

by Groff Schroeder

Many Americans take pride in the idea that their nation is the pinnacle of equality and freedom - even as they look down upon organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) who are willing to to the difficult and often unpopular work required to ensure America actually conforms to these ideals.

In a decision that may have serious implications for church-state separation, the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has ruled that the governmental use of the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance does not violate the U.S. Constitution. The court stated that the phrase does not endorse religion in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

On October 31st, 2009, my friend and I attended the “Legacy of Darwin Intelligent Design Conference” in Castle Rock, Colorado. The event was sponsored by Shepherd Project Ministries, who did a great job hosting the event. The event was well organized, ran smoothly, and real people were picked out of the audience to ask questions of the speakers, albeit it was limited to only a few. Luckily, I was one of them. Despite all that this, I can say it was the scariest Halloween I have ever had. Why has it taken me five months to summarize the conference?

Last November, with the Thanksgiving holiday bearing down on me, I awoke to a sensational media claim (again).  A 46-year-old Brussels man named Rom Houben, presumed to be in a coma for the last 23 years, had in fact been fully conscious for most of that time.  There was the evidence, right in front of me!  Mr. Houben was communicating with the aid of a computer.  Well, almost.  His right hand, firmly held by a “speech therapist,” with index finger extended, was typing on a computer keyboard.  The therapist was acting as a facilitator, sensing Mr.

Today people throughout the world are celebrating the birthday of a great man of science, Charles Darwin. Darwin’s theory of evolution through natural selection has been hailed as one of the greatest scientific theories of all time. In a nutshell, Darwin discovered that all species that exist on the earth today, including man, all are descendants of a common ancestor that had been endlessly modified over time through natural selection.

War makes it legal to kill people on the industrial scale. Success is uncertain, and killing both “combatants” (formerly soldiers) and “non-combatants” (formerly civilians) is acceptable - under certain circumstances. International law(1) and ethical ideals forbid "pre-emptive" war against people who might attack in the future – but allows people under attack to defend themselves with defensive and aggressive deadly force. Therefore, pre-emptive war appears to facilitate, if not guarantee, the outcome it supposedly prevents.

Religious Belief and Public Debate
by Doug Schrepel

Early in the recent deliberation over the Colorado Springs property tax initiative dubbed 2C, I penned an impassioned plea imploring us to look past our individual self-interest and reflect on the greater needs of our community. A few days later, before I had even poured my morning coffee, my ex-wife (with whom I have a good-natured relationship and share a surname) was calling me. The Colorado Springs Gazette had published my appeal and one of her clients had called her to share his annoyance.

Thinking Free: The Conceptual Gap Between Theism and Atheism and the Role the Freethinkers of Colorado Springs Plays Within It

by

Louis E. Guzman Ph.D.

Freethinkers of Colorado Springs Membership Meeting

315 East Costilla

Colorado Springs, Colorado

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Lou Guzman was the second son of an immigrant Mexican couple, who immigrated into the U.S almost 100 years ago. During his 20s he joined the US Navy and went to war. After that he was re-educated at UCLA and the University of Chicago. Most of his working life after university studies were spent with the US government, which during the Cold War years took him to Latin America to spread democracy. He retired from government in 1980, after which he wandered aimlessly. Then in CE 2000 his wife (a Lutheran) fortunately followed his daughter to Colorado Springs, where she and her family had settled. Then he found the Freethinkers of Colorado Springs, a group that helped him orient his personal philosophy into that fuzzy land between theism and atheism.

 

Note: Louis E. Guzman Ph.D. was the first president of the Freethinkers of Colorado Springs.

Addressing the Climate Crisis

by Teri Ulrich

Freethinkers of Colorado Springs

Membership Meeting

7:00 to 9:00 PM

315 East Costilla in Colorado Springs

     Pregnancy is perhaps the most personal and private human bodily function imaginable.  Conception occurs after ovulation when a sperm and an egg fuse in the fallopian tube forming a zygote, which divides into16 cells, becoming a morula.  About four days after fertilization, a central cavity develops in the growing mass of cells, forming a blastocyst.  Five or six days after ovulation, the blastocyst implants in the wall of the uterus becoming an embryo.  Incorrect implantation in a woman’s fallopian tube, cervix or abdomen (ectopic pregnancy) us

High level government bodies in an increasing number of states (such as Iowa and Vermont) are affirming that allowing one group the benefits of [insert action here] while simultaneously denying a different group access to [insert same action here], constitutes prima facie discrimination – and is thus unlawful.