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We oppose the outsourcing of public responsibilities to religious groups that believe some families are more worthy than others — like mine.
From fighting harmful policies to ensuring atheists have access to secular resources, American Atheists is working nationwide to advance religious equality for all.
The White Christian Nationalist movement’s goal is indoctrination, not free inquiry. Not to understand our history, but to rewrite it.
When the Pentagon decides atheists, humanists, pagans, and more don’t belong, the message is clear: The government values some people more than others.
White Christian Nationalists like to say there are no atheists in foxholes, but they’re wrong. I am one: a proud atheist and U.S. combat veteran.
In the city where American democracy was first debated — and written into law — we reaffirmed that the real founding promise of a pluralistic, secular democracy belongs to ALL of us.
History has taught us again and again what happens when people decide intolerance is acceptable or even righteous because “God hates certain things.”
The 2026 state legislative session was the most productive year in American Atheists’ 63-year history. In some states, we saw 100% success rates.
Small-d democratic movements like ours aim to fill every seat, but White Christian Nationalists don’t need to. For their anti-democratic agenda to succeed, they only have to normalize their narrative that our country belongs more to some people than to others.
The Founders weren’t hostile to religion. They were opposed to tyranny, and they understood a government powerful enough to impose one creed is likewise powerful enough to punish anyone outside it. I’d argue Christian Nationalists also understand this but they actually like the idea of religious tyranny so long as they’re the ones in charge.
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