Follow On Faith Saturday for live Tweets from the Reason Rally on the National Mall, billed by organizers as the largest gathering of the secular movement in history.
“We want people to come out of the closet and show people we can be good without God,” Herb Silverman, president of the Secular Coalition, told the Post’s Michelle Boorstein. Richard Dawkins, Adam Savage (co-host of “Mythbusters”) Penn Jillette and Rep. Pete Stark are among those expected to speak or appear via video presentation.
Follow tweets from the Post at Reason Rally below.
Many of the event’s participants wrote about the secular movement’s history and goals for On Faith this week. Read more about the Reason Rally, atheist activism, and the future of secularism below:
Richard Dawkins: Who would rally against reason?
Fred Edwords: The great atheist ‘coming out’
David Silverman: Why we need a Reason Rally
R. Elisabeth Cornwell: Why women need secularism
Tom Gilson: Atheists don’t own reason
A billboard written in Hebrew and English sponsored by the American Atheists is seen next to the Kosciuszko Bridge in the Brooklyn borough of New York March 7, 2012. The billboard is meant to serve as an advertisement for the upcoming "Reason Rally" in Washington, D.C., which is being billed as the largest atheist gathering in U.S. history.
(SHANNON STAPLETON - REUTERS)
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