Retirement Ceremony for High-Profile Military Humanist

2016-11-15

by Jase, Executive Director, United Coalition of Reason I met Chief online about 3 years through Jason Torpy of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers (MAAF). Since that time, it’s been a pleasure for me to get to know Chief and his f ...

Military Nontheist Hero Awarded for Lifesaving Action

2016-10-18

Susan Education Officer and National Coordinator Last week, we learned that a member of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers—Petty Officer 2nd Class (PO2), Todd Kregel was given an award for “Heroic Achievement while serving as Ch ...

Interview: An [Air] Force to Be Reckoned With!

2016-07-12

by Susan, Educational Officer and National Coordinator A little over two years ago, UnitedCoR visited the Texas Secular Conference in Austin. While at the conference, we had the chance to speak with Victoria (“Vicki”) Gettmann, and we heard some he ...

Origin and Refutation of “No Atheists in Foxholes”

By now, we’re certain that non-theists are tired of hearing that old phrase, “There are no atheists in foxholes.” Whether that quote came from President Eisenhower in the mid-1950s, or if it originated from a chaplain’s sermon during the Battle of ...