American Atheists

Here's the deal #AtheistSky. We want to help you connect with on-the-ground activists, communities, journalists, academics, partners, and allies who are working to protect religious equality and combat White Christian Nationalism. Here's a starter pack to kick things off. Who else we should add?

Great day to be an atheist

"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others."

Absolutely not.

RFK Jr. is going to kill thousands of children with this bullshit.

Featured story: What changed? How did Christianity become the political weapon we see today? A new book from historian Joseph L. Locke investigates how "militant" Christian nationalism became the state religion.

We have been proud to be on the front lines of the fight to end child marriage alongside our partners at Unchained At Last — and our state advocates have lobbied in California for the past three years to get this bill passed. It's time to finish the job.

In the Oval Office, Trump's Religious Liberty Commission chair, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, called the separation of church & state the "biggest lie that's been told in America." After reading their report, we beg to differ. Join us Monday for a town hall to break it down. atheists.org/RLC-townhall

Absolutely agree. Unlike the White Christian Nationalist movement and its acolytes, we actually care about religious freedom, pluralism, and government neutrality. And we're proud to work with Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and Jews who share that commitment. Thank you, Professor McQuade!

"Throughout, the message is clear: Get religion. If you don’t, the commission suggests, it just doesn’t seem to work out, does it?"

We're calling on @schumer.senate.gov to retract his fabricated statements, correct the record wherever they appear, and apologize. Our country — and our history — is under attack and he's enabling it. It's outrageous and we should be demanding better.

In the wake of Donald Trump and his Christian Nationalist acolytes hijacking America 250 in an attempt to justify their exclusionary attacks on huge swaths of Americans, why is Chuck Schumer sharing fabricated quotes that sound like the sort of thing fake "historian" David Barton would make up?

Why is Chuck Schumer fabricating quotes by the Founders? Why is he carrying water for the White Christian Nationalist movement's attempts to paint America as a Christian nation? We call on him to retract these fabricated statements, correct the record, and apologize. Sign the petition NOW!

Chuck Schumer has spent more than 20 years claiming the Founding Fathers called America "God's noble experiment." There's no evidence any of them ever said that. Why does he keep lying about it? www.friendlyatheist.com/p/chuck-schu...

NEW from @friendlyatheist.com: "This isn’t some innocuous mistake. Schumer’s constant repetition of a fake phrase is inadvertently propping up Christian Nationalist mythology."

Jonathan lays out Schumer's outrageous fabrications here — and adds new details. They edited his Fourth of July post to remove the claim that the founders (unspecified, and apparently all at once?) uttered this sentiment as they left "Constitution [sic] Hall." Yikes.

EXCLUSIVE: On July 4, the same day Republicans peddled lies about God and American history… …so did Chuck Schumer. I even found a Facebook post they edited…without removing the key falsehood.

In an admittedly cursory search, literally the only references I can find to the Founders calling America "god's noble experiment" are from... Chuck Schumer speeches. Why is the Senate Democratic Leader carrying water for a right wing Christian lie? And apparently fabricating quotes to do it?

We already knew Donald Trump's Christian Nationalist speechwriters have never read the Constitution, so why would the Declaration be any different?

In the spirit of "trying to make ourselves better," there's still time to delete this and post another version — one that doesn't buy into the divisive, ahistoric, revisionist "history" of the Christian Nationalist movement.

A disgusting erasure of millions of nonreligious Americans by the White Christian Nationalists who have hijacked our government.

The work to perfect our union continues, even after 250 years.

Period.

And when we see our government — and our history — being hijacked by the White Christian Nationalist movement, you'd better believe we dissent.

There's nothing more American than the separation of religion from government. Happy Independence Day! 🎇🎆

"[T]he same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects." — James Madison

Choosing to quote Leviticus for ANYTHING, let alone to support the principle of liberty, over the plain language of the Constitution or the writings of the founders, is deeply disturbing and a clear expression of the White Christian Nationalism taking over our government.

Choosing to quote Leviticus for ANYTHING, let alone to support the principle of liberty, over the plain language of the Constitution or the writings of the founders, is deeply disturbing and a clear expression of the White Christian Nationalism taking over our government.

"[T]he same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects." — James Madison

We're relieved at the outcome of today's birthright citizenship decision, but the fact that there were 4 votes to ignore the plain language of the Constitution is appalling. The White Christian Nationalist movement will keep coming for our rights and we have to act to stop them.

I’m both relieved and appalled that the plain language of the Constitution — and a bedrock promise of America — was only preserved by a single vote at the Supreme Court. Read my full statement on our website. 🔗

No it hasn't and no it won't.

Neither is "the president is a lawless king who can do whatever he wants" but here we are

Tickets just went on sale. www.unholytrinity.net With @mattdillahunty.bsky.social and @aron-ra.bsky.social

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More analysis and responses to the Pentagon's decision to eliminate 180 faith designations — and the theological firestorm they ignited. Responses from me, my friends at @americanhumanist.bsky.social, and multiple chaplains and former service members.

NEW: American Atheists has (yet again) filed FOIA requests demanding answers from the Trump Administration, this time about the Pentagon's decision to eliminate 180 faith & belief codes, including atheist and humanist designations.

While it might be more convenient for White Christian Nationalists like Pete Hegseth to pretend that atheists don't exist, simply repeating the lie doesn't make it true.

No matter how hard these extremists try, they will never succeed in writing us out of our history or silencing us. Atheist soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and guardians are patriots committed to protecting our nation and our Constitution. It’s a shame we can’t say the same thing about Hegseth.