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Secular Ethics of Love
How Religion and Politics Pull Our Strings
How to Win the Culture Wars
Moral Confusion
Sanctuary for the Secular
Is God Too Smal for the Universe?
September 26, 2024
Ronald A. Lindsay
I hope you haven’t forgotten. September 30 is International Blasphemy Rights Day (“BRD” for short). When the Center for Inquiry (CFI) launched BRD in 2009, the primary goal was to draw attention to the continuing harsh suppression of religious dissent. In too many countries, those who question majority religious beliefs, or even utter an ambiguous …
Volume 44, No. 6
October/November 2024
Paulo Bittencourt
I was abused as a child. The abuse to which I was subjected is called “child indoctrination,” a type of brainwashing considered noble and necessary and, therefore, the most natural thing in the world. My mother took me to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, an American denomination known for keeping the Sabbath and emphasizing the advent, …
Volume 44, No. 6
October/November 2024
Andrea Szalanski
In recent years the world has witnessed a massive resurgence of fanatical dogmas and doctrines. The fundamental premises of the modern world and the Enlightenment are either being forgotten or completely ignored. The commitment to scientific evidence and reason as a method of knowing, belief in the value of individual freedom and dignity, and the …
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