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Women in Secularism
Women’s History: A Core Secular Issue Susan Jacoby
It isn’t surprising that the secular movement in America has been characterized by historical discontinuities that, in a number of respects, resemble the amnesia that held back feminism for so long.
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Women in Secularism
Feminism, Religion, and ‘Mattering’ Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
My engagement in both the tough world of professional philosophy and the even-tougher world of literary fiction has afforded me an ideal vantage point for viewing the many subtle ways in which gender biases undermine women.
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Women in Secularism
Sexism and Religion: Can the Knot Be Untied? Katha Pollitt
Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices?
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The Secular Right and Its Discontents
Why I Am Not a Liberal, and You Shouldn’t Be Either Robert M. Price
Sometimes I am asked how I can combine utter skepticism on religious topics with a conservative political stance, as if the two were somehow inconsistent. Here is an answer.
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The Secular Right and Its Discontents
Progressive vs. Liberal Glade Ross
We are all humanists, but I believe there’s a very good chance those on each side of the progressive/libertarian divide view their counterparts as a little less pure and perfect in their humanistic expression.
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The Secular Right and Its Discontents
Why Secular Humanism and Libertarianism Are Incompatible Dan Davis
The irreconcilable differences between libertarians and secular humanists arise in their viewpoints about government’s role in public life.
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Joseph Ratzinger and the Nativity Legends Etienne Vermeersch
We consider stories of miracles from other cultures to be fantasies, but when it comes to the Bible, even sensible people lose their critical faculties.
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Cremation and Religiosity Richard G. Dumont
I believe that the strongest objective evidence for greater attitudinal acceptance of death may be found in increasing cremation rates.
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Editorial
Faith: The Humanist Perspective Ronald A. Lindsay
Although faith cannot be rationally justified, this doesn’t prevent theologians from trying their best to make faith seem not only reasonable but a good thing.
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Op-Ed
Doctoring the Script Ophelia Benson
Have you ever noticed how fundamentally boring God is? I think that’s a slightly neglected subhead under atheism and secular humanism.
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Op-Ed
Do the Best Lack All Conviction? Russell Blackford
So often, ideologues display an intensity of conviction, and an unscrupulousness in acting upon it, against which good, fair, perhaps liberal-minded people seem helpless.
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Op-Ed
The Strange Persistence of Faith
While people could be rational most of the time, they often don’t choose to be. This is especially true when it comes to religious faith.
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Op-Ed
When the Devil Tells the Truth Shadia B. Drury
Did Putin say anything outrageous? Not in the least. What he said was almost platitudinous.
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Op-Ed
Atheists Must Not Self-Censor Edward Tabash
Society is better off when exposed to arguments against the existence of a supernatural being and against the supernatural generally.
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Letters in response to the October/November 2013 issue of FREE INQUIRY.
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Church-State Update
Attack of the Education Pseudo-Reformers Edd Doerr
Make no mistake: America’s public schools, an indispensable component of our religiously neutral (that is, secular) democracy, are under serious siege.
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Science and Religion
Anti-Evolutionism: The Bible Is Not the Main Issue Jason Rosenhouse
If you are interested in studying anti-evolutionism up close, then central Kansas and my current home, in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, are two excellent places to live.
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Secularity and Society
Public Education Means Secular Education Wayne L. Trotta
You hear often enough the cry from the religious Right that our schools are teaching secular humanism. What is this all about?
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Reviews
Of Facts and Fictions William Harwood
A review of Bullspotting: Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation, by Loren Collins.
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Reviews
Earth’s Evidence Refutes the Flood Wayne L. Trotta
A review of The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood, by David Montgomery.
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Reviews
Speaking—at Last!—of Forbidden Things Tom Flynn
A review of Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation, edited by Philip Cafaro and Eileen Crist, with a foreword by Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich.
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Reviews
In Praise of the Science-Guided Life Daniel M. Kane
A review of The Way of Science: Finding Truth and Meaning in a Scientific Worldview, by Dennis R. Trumble.
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Brief looks at a variety of books.
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Poem
No One’s Buying Art These Days William Doreski
Poetry from the December 2013/January 2014 issue of FREE INQUIRY.
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Poem
Driving to Keene on Sunday William Doreski
Poetry from the December 2013/January 2014 issue of FREE INQUIRY.
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