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Flying Oskar: Standing Up For Religious Tolerance At Dorman High School

By Christopher George

Imagine for a moment that you’re 18-years-old again. You’ve reached that much ballyhooed milestone in life, the moment that American society uses as its substitute for the Quinceanera, the Bar and Bat Mitzvah, and the Seijin-Shiki to mark the transition from the trivialities of childhood to the responsibilities of adulthood. It’s high... »

Sparkle City Headlines: District 7 sued over religion

By Steve Shanafelt

From yesterday’s Spartanburg Herald-Journal … Spartanburg School District 7 is named as the defendant in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday regarding religious course offerings for high school credit. In the suit, the plaintiffs, Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation and two District 7 parents, Robert Moss and Ellen Tillett, argue that a religious education course offered to... »

Flying Oskar: The Rising Tide of Non-Theism

By Christopher George

Last week, I read an intriguing article in The New York Times titled “More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops.” The article was about a Charleston group called Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry, and how the group’s growing membership is proof that even in uber-religious South Carolina, non-believers of all stripes are coming... »