Author Archive: Tom Cara
Tom, who has been a life member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation since 2010, began coordinating efforts for a Chicago area chapter of FFRF in April, 2012. He is a declared atheist whose religious skepticism began during his high school years in the mid-1970's. He is married with two grown children and has worked professionally as an advertising media planner/buyer since 1985 in both the consumer and business-to-business markets. Additionally, Tom has been active with several non-profit organizations/groups, including the Park Ridge Healthy Community Partnership, the Maine (Township, IL) Community Youth Assistance Foundation (MCYAF), as well as working with the “Teens Against Tobacco Use” program of the American Lung Association.
We Believe…
Black Lives Matter… …and that people of all races are entitled to the same equal rights and opportunities. Yet the bible says God granted covenant and life-long priesthood to the Israelite Phinehas who impaled a mixed-race couple just for having sexual relations that would not keep God’s people pure (Numbers Chapter 25). Love is Love… […]
Freethought Makes its Presence in Chicagoland Holiday Displays
The Freedom From Religion Foundation and its Metropolitan Chicago chapter have placed their secular holiday displays all over the Windy City area. A colorful banner invoking the Founding Fathers has again been unfurled in Daley Plaza in the heart of Chicago. It greets everyone with “Happy Winter Solstice” and pictures Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin […]
Andrew Seidel Coming to Chicago to Promote His New Book, “The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American”
Andrew Seidel, Director of Strategic Response at the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has added Chicago as a stop on his national tour to promote his new book, “The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American.” The Freedom From Religion Foundation Metropolitan Chicago Chapter will co-sponsor, along with the End of the Line Humanists. an evening […]
The Freedom From Religion Foundation and the FFRFMCC Bring Campaign to Stop Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse to Chicago
Through the help of a generous donation from a Chicago-area individual who was abused as a teenager by a Catholic priest, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and its Chicago chapter (FFRFMCC) have brought a campaign to call for a stop to child sex abuse by clergy to Chicago. Our initial attempts to run full page […]
Secular Holiday Greetings Return to Chicagoland
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is proud to announce the placement of three separate Winter Solstice displays for 2018, designed to provide the non-religious point-of-view in celebrating the holiday season. At top, our sixth year bringing secular holiday greetings to Chicago’s Daley Center Plaza, is our multi-faceted display intended to counter a life-size Christian creche […]
“Why Christians Do Not Own The Winter Holiday Season”
By: Tom Cara, Executive Director, FFRFMCC The month of December can be a perplexing time for ex-Christians Like many who were brought up in the Christian tradition, I grew up with Christmas. Awaiting Santa’s arrival as a child still holds treasured memories within me. But, imagine going through all those years enjoying the fun and […]
“Freethought Matters” TV Program Coming to the Chicago Market!
The national Freedom From Religion Foundation recently announced they will be expanding market coverage of their weekly television program, “Freethought Matters.” Beginning September 2nd, the show will now air in three new cities: Portland, OR – KRCW-CW (Ch 32), Sunday at 9:00 a.m Sacramento, CA – KQCA-MY (58), Sunday at 8:30 a.m Chicago, IL – […]
Our Deep-Rooted Suspicion of Each Other — Do We Have Christianity to Blame for This?
FFRFMCC Commentary We recently had another National Day of Reason come and go, and I’ve spent the past several days that followed contemplating how sad it is that this event is something which gets little or no attention from the press, as it is heavily overshadowed by its religious counterpart, the National Day of Prayer, […]
The FFRFMCC to Co-Sponsor Roy Zimmerman in Concert!
The FFRFMCC is proud to announce it will be co-sponsoring next month’s Second Saturday Coffeehouse at the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago. The evening will feature progressive satirical singer/songwriter Roy Zimmerman, who will be in town on his current national tour, ReZist. ReZist is ninety minutes of Roy Zimmerman’s original songs, a funny and forceful […]
FFRFMCC Once Again Protests Catholic Prayer Shrine in Chicago
During the Christian “holy week” each year, a Catholic prayer shrine appears in Chicago’s Daley Center Plaza, where an organization called the Divine Mercy Project injects its Catholic religious beliefs on to government property, turning the Plaza into a church sanctuary and calling for all good citizens of Chicago to convert to Catholicism. At the same […]
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