Thomas Sheedy, Author at Atheists for Liberty

The 2012 Reason Rally: 10 Years Later

March 24, 2022 by Thomas Sheedy in Opinion

It was 10 years ago today that the largest gathering of atheists (agnostics, skeptics, humanists & free-thinkers) in world history occurred. The 2012 Reason Rally, a successor to the 2002 Godless Americans March on Washington wasn’t expected to have the greatest amount of success on that cold rainy day. Christopher Hitchens passed away a few […]

Ten years after Elevatorgate | What we should learn from our past mistakes

June 3, 2021 by Thomas Sheedy in Opinion

You are a proud atheist in the emerging New Atheist movement attending one of the most impactful and energized conferences in your community. In June of 2011, you are in Dublin, Ireland, attending the World Atheist Convention, an event celebrating atheism, science advocacy, and secularism with some of the most famous freethinkers of the time. […]

Atheists for Liberty Statement in support of Richard Dawkins

April 20, 2021 by Thomas Sheedy in Statements

On April 10, 2021, famous atheist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote a controversial tweet comparing 2015 NAACP Chapter President Rachel Dolezal’s “identifying” as a black woman to transgenderism. This of course sparked a major controversy, with the majority of freethinkers coming to his defense, and a minority of outspoken activists going after him. Sadly, […]