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 | American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites UsAmerican religion is a conundrum. Americans manage to combine deep religious devotion with wide religious diversity, all the while remaining remarkably tolerant of each other. What factors have shaped the current religious landscape in the United States? What characteristics do
Published in the May / June 2011 Humanist
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 | FICTION: A Day in HeavenNewton, Madame Curie, Galileo, Michael Faraday, and others are sitting around heaven looking for a way to save earth…
Published in the May / June 2011 Humanist
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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
Published in the March / April 2011 Humanist
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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 |
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
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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
Published in the September / October 2007 Humanist
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