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How Do We “Do” Humanism?It seems we nontheists go by many names—atheist, secularist, freethinker, humanist, secular humanist, rationalist, agnostic, and so on—as if these differences actually mean something. I’ve heard people imply that there is some sort of ideological difference between them, as if [Read More...]
Published in the March / April 2011 Humanist
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A Bad Month for Atheists?Following the January 8, 2011, mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that killed federal judge John Roll along with five others and injured fourteen people, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, I found myself, like many other Americans, ruminating on how remarkably [Read More...]
Published in the March / April 2011 Humanist
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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 [Read More...]
Published in the September / October 2009 Humanist
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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 [Read More...] |
 | 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 [Read More...] |
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 [Read More...]
Published in the January / February 2009 Humanist
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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 [Read More...]
Published in the March / April 2008 Humanist
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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 [Read More...]
Published in the January / February 2008 Humanist
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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 [Read More...]
Published in the September / October 2007 Humanist
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 | 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 [Read More...]
Published in the September / October 2007 Humanist
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