Last week, the Freethought Books Project received a letter from an Illinois atheist prisoner. In it, he talks about growing up under the backdrop of a statue of Robert Ingersoll, The Great Agnostic. The prisoner, Michael L., reflects about sledding on the statue in the snow, doing marijuana by Ingersoll’s likeness, and even making out [...]
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Peoria Atheist Prisoner Reflects on The Great Agnostic
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Standing Room Only for Greg Epstein
Posted in Lectures, Media, News on November 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On his Good Without God book tour, Greg Epstein spoke to a standing room only crowd at Reed College on Thursday night. The event, which was cosponsored by the Reed Secular Alliance, Kol Shalom Humanistic Jews of Portland, and the Portland Coalition of Reason, drew a crowd of 170. All involved were pleased with the [...]


