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Top Secret: A Humanist Opera in One Act
Volume 42, No. 4June/July 2022
Look around the world and you see religious fundamentalists vying for power. When they get it, they force everyone else to obey their rules. They are hard to stop. Today it is happening in the Middle East; a few centuries ago, it was in Europe. This opera tells the horrifying story of fundamentalists gaining total …
‘Firsts’ of the Freethought Trail
Volume 42, No. 4June/July 2022
The Freethought Trail (www.freethought-trail.org) is the Council for Secular Humanism’s online tribute to some 185 radical-reform history sites. All are located in west-central New York State (between Rochester and Rome; very roughly, within 120 miles of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum in Dresden, New York). The Trail focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth …
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Have Christians Accepted the Scientific Conclusion That God Does Not Answer Intercessory Prayer?
Volume 39, No. 1December 2018 / January 2019
In 1982, a young cardiologist at the San Francisco General Medical Center named Randolph Byrd had a brilliant insight that would motivate several important investigations of prayer during the following two decades. He realized that the standard research paradigm known as the double-blind randomized clinical trial could be used to test the efficacy of intercessory …
Why I Am Pro-Abortion, Not Just Pro-Choice
Volume 36, No. 5August / September 2016
Why be pro-abortion? Because of all the genuine, unquestioned goods it makes possible.
The Importance of Being Blasphemous
Volume 35, No. 6October / November 2015
Looking back on the Satanic Verses affair from the time of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, it is clear that Western culture has hemorrhaged away its courage.
Popular Articles
Have Christians Accepted the Scientific Conclusion That God Does Not Answer Intercessory Prayer?
Volume 39, No. 1December 2018 / January 2019
In 1982, a young cardiologist at the San Francisco General Medical Center named Randolph Byrd had a brilliant insight that would motivate several important investigations of prayer during the following two decades. He realized that the standard research paradigm known as the double-blind randomized clinical trial could be used to test the efficacy of intercessory …
Why I Am Pro-Abortion, Not Just Pro-Choice
Volume 36, No. 5August / September 2016
Why be pro-abortion? Because of all the genuine, unquestioned goods it makes possible.
Looking Back
Appreciating the Unknown Ingersoll
Volume 38, No. 4June / July 2018
Ingersoll was a brilliant man and a rousing orator, but he wasn’t always ahead of his time.
Ingersoll, the Premature Feminist
Volume 38, No. 4June / July 2018
Almost alone among Golden Age freethinkers, Ingersoll’s ideas about women would not seem out of place today.
Freethought and Fury
Volume 38, No. 4June / July 2018
The story of an epic battle between freethought and censorship.
Appreciating the Unknown Ingersoll
Volume 38, No. 4June / July 2018
Ingersoll was a brilliant man and a rousing orator, but he wasn’t always ahead of his time.
Ingersoll, the Premature Feminist
Volume 38, No. 4June / July 2018
Almost alone among Golden Age freethinkers, Ingersoll’s ideas about women would not seem out of place today.