Tag Archives: atheism
The HUMANIST Interview with Rebecca Newberger GoldsteinAuthor and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s new novel, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (Pantheon, 2010), follows the past and present of one Cass Seltzer, a professor of the philosophy of religion who Time magazine
Published in the May / June 2010 Humanist
Tagged academia, atheism, book, goldstein, intellectualism, interview, literature, logic, philosophy, politics 2 Comments |
Confessions of a Prayer-Struck AtheistIs it ever intellectually honest for an atheist to pray? Indeed, can an atheist claim, without manifest absurdity, to have a relationship with God? Midway through my Iraq deployment as an Army journalist, these abstract questions seemed not only real
Published in the September / October 2009 Humanist
Tagged army, atheism, atheist, prayer Leave a comment |
Star Trek Made Me an AtheistGrowing up, my parents were very strict. On Friday nights I had to be in bed by 10 pm. My mother would tuck me in, turn off the light, and close the door. I would lie under the covers until |
 | Living Without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the UndecidedIn the introduction to Living Without God, Ronald Aronson assumes a problem that many religious skeptics would quickly dismiss as not their problem. And yet it’s one to which I suspect many would welcome a personal solution. “To appreciate our |
The Reason “Everything Happens for a Reason”The following is an excerpt from Living Without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided by Ronald Aronson (Counterpoint Press, 2008) Belonging to an impatient culture promising instant answers, often poorly equipped and overwhelmed, most people struggle |
Cry If You Want To—Cases of Mistaken Atheism Still OffensiveIf someone threw a party in your honor, would you go? Now, before you say yes and then ask where, when, and if you should bring your dance moves, consider the full question: If a Godless American threw a party
Published in the January / February 2009 Humanist
Tagged atheism, atheist, prejudice Leave a comment |
Ripping into the BibleON THE MORNING of December 7, 2007, Christopher Campbell walked into his English Honors class at Parker High School, prepared to tear out pages of the Bible. Earlier that week his teacher had taped aphorisms by Ralph Waldo Emerson on
Published in the March / April 2008 Humanist
Tagged atheism, atheist, bible, blasphemy Leave a comment |
The Post-Theological UmbrellaSurely one of the biggest barriers keeping humanism from being a more prominent force in the United States is its nontheistic character. Two relevant surveys provide compelling proof that Americans just don’t feel good about openly rejecting belief in a
Published in the January / February 2008 Humanist
Tagged atheism, atheist, philosophy Leave a comment |
Belief and a Change of FortuneIn February 2007 famed British athlete and born-again Christian Jonathan Edwards resigned from Songs of Praise, BBC television’s flagship religious program. The reason? According to the June 27 Times of London, he’d come to the conclusion “that his inner sense
Published in the September / October 2007 Humanist
Tagged atheism, atheist, atheists, religion Leave a comment |
 | God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons EverythingIts ability to withstand an assault by Christopher Hitchens is one testament to the hardiness of religious faith. (I wouldn’t want him mad at me.) A famously adept debater, armed with wit and erudition, Hitchens can be persuasive even when
Published in the September / October 2007 Humanist
Tagged atheism, atheist, atheists, blasphemy, philosophy, religion Leave a comment |
- You’re Addicted to What? 69597 view(s)
- A Woman’s Place? The Dearth of Women in the Secular Movement 25628 view(s)
- Heaven for Atheists 25147 view(s)
- Prick the Bubbles, Pass the Mantle: Hitchens as Orwell’s Successor 23096 view(s)
- Prohibition & Humanism 20721 view(s)
