Washington Area Secular Humanists

06/01/2026

"Swallow it! The power of God’s coming on ya!"

That’s what a Christian "prophet" yelled while telling a teen to eat a ripped-out Bible page in front of a cheering congregation.

A bizarre stunt at a West Virginia megachurch shows how easily religious leaders can manipulate children in the name of God

06/01/2026

With the conviction of three anti-ICE protesters in Spokane, Washington on federal "conspiracy" charges Thursday, civil rights advocates and legal experts fear that the Trump administration may have just been handed a powerful tool to criminalize dissent.

06/01/2026

06/01/2026

The agency’s analysis contradicts claims made by former vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad.

06/01/2026

"Unless the Trump administration has redefined 'the American dream' to mean 'losing the help your family needs to afford groceries because of federal cuts,' I have some bad news for Secretary Rollins," said one expert.

06/01/2026

Is it healthy to eat an all-meat or meat-heavy keto diet? Last year, a study concluded that certain people don't need to worry about high cholesterol, but that study was a giant steaming pile of garbage that was finally retracted. Also Jordan Peterson may be dead.

Transcript: Hey, remember Jordan Peterson? He’s the famous Canadian psychologist who hates “woke” stuff, and who helped popularize the carnivore diet. He and his daughter, Mikhaila, announced that …

05/30/2026

Steven K. Green uses the recent “Rededicate 250” event on the National Mall as reason to explore “What Jefferson and Madison would have thought about ‘rededicating’ the US to God.”

Both men were committed to advancing religious freedom because they saw it as deeply entwined with freedom of inquiry and conscience. “Reason and free enquiry are the only effectual agents against error,” Jefferson wrote in 1784. Allowing people to investigate ideas freely “will support the true religion,” because “Truth can stand by itself.”

(The Conversation) — The ‘Rededicate 250’ rally raised questions about separation of church and state. Jefferson and Madison’s many letters to each other shed light on that much-debated principle.

05/30/2026

In a recent commentary for Justia, Marci A. Hamilton described “President Donald Trump’s Two-Track Process to Establish Christian Nationalism.”

"President Donald Trump will have done more than any other modern President to eliminate the separation of church and state and to promote in its place White Christian Nationalism."

"Recent polls show that the American people do not support either aim, but they cannot repel this attempted takeover of our First Amendment freedoms unless they understand the threats posed."

University of Pennsylvania professor Marci A. Hamilton discusses Donald Trump’s dual strategy for institutionalizing White Christian Nationalism by installing a conservative Supreme Court majority and...

05/30/2026

Thirteen years on, people are still finding (and appreciating) the American Freethought documentary series. National Secular Society historian Bob Forder recently wrote about the series in The Freethinker, praising it as “a serious and polished attempt to tell the story of freethought in the USA and examine its important influence on the way that nation has developed.”

It seems to me that freethinkers and secularists are bad at recording, sharing, and promoting their own history.…