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“You have to understand that this picture of the future is not a remote and improbable one, and if it comes to your neighborhood in the shape of terrorism, you’ll have paid for it.”

When mainstream theologians admit the Resurrection might never have occurred, arguments that Jesus never existed miss the point.

Obama went back on
a campaign promise to reform how billions of dollars in federal grants to faith-based organizations would
e administered.

“Why did the majority of respondents who ‘just stopped believing’ do so?”

“Basic ideas of free speech require that people be at liberty to express their commitments in public.”

“Fox News legitimizes violent insurrection—and invites calamity. How did it come to this?”

By the time of Jesus, the commandment to “love thy neighbor” was already part of most religions and also Greco-Roman philosophy.

“What I would like to learn from Shriver’s critics is how cultural appropriation differs from what we call ‘education.’”

Humanists have a special obligation to defend the humanities, in education and in society.

If the Church wishes to honor a doctrinaire nun, let it do so without an affront to science and reason.

Remembering scholar and author Earl Lee.

Letters in response to Free Inquiry volume 36, issue 6.

“Over three million students now attend charter schools, which are generally rather opaque and rarely answerable to elected public boards.”

“Darrow’s approach remained the same:
a full and frank determinism with a boundless empathy
t its core.”

“People talk of criminals as though they were utterly different from ‘good’ people.”

Answers to recurrent questions about atheism and humanism you wish you’d thought of at the time.

“What we believe affects others, and how we affect others goes to the core of morality.”

“There is a Muslim tradition of religious skepticism, particularly among intellectuals with a modern education.”

Under Tiberius, by Nick Tosches (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2015, ISBN 978-0316405669). 336 pp. Hardcover, $26.00. As Under Tiberius draws to a close, its narrator, Gaius Fulvius Falconius, knows he is dying. Bedridden and in pain, Falconius holds no hope for an afterlife. And though he sees the world that he is about to …

“Why a cartoon
history of humanism? The obvious answer, roughly put, is
Why not?’”

“Woodwell’s conclusions on our global crisis are considered and carefully detailed in this concise (if often repetitious) summation of a life’s work.”

It emerged from the swamp”ooze / And crawled onto land;

The evidence is in: Terrorism does not pose an existential threat to our civilization.

There have never been so many ways civilization could fall–or so many with the power and the willingness to push.

Probabilistic doomsday predictions shortchange the proven power of humans to keep the worst from happening.

No guarantees, but there is good reason to fear that terrorism could become an existential threat.

Beginning around 1970, humanist social-justice activism began building fewer independent organizations, instead creating stronger humanist organizations.

It is likely that Jesus was an entirely “mythical” figure that was later historicized, not a mundane historical figure who was later mythicized.

“The purpose of the current
study is to replicate Durkheim’s analysis, utilizing the fifty U.S.
tates and Washington, D.C., a the units of analysis.”

Hospital and nursing-home clergy treated this nonbeliever with serial disrespect.

An author responds to a critical review in these pages.

The editor responds to an author’s criticisms.

The memory of Robert Green Ingersoll is being preserved on many fronts.

“Humans are not
so constituted as to be able to function in
 world of pure rtionality.”

Words such as tragic are inadequate to describe premeditated acts of murder motivated by religious or political fanaticism.

Fox News is fact-free. Yet some of its critiques—only some—cannot be dismissed.

Ritual and tradition: Are they supporting ribs for our lives, or more like prison bars? Sometimes the answer is unclear.

The idea of Hell encapsulates much that is contradictory and perverse in Christianity.

Letters in response to Free Inquiry volume 36, issue 5.

Despite broad research, a new book makes a dubious effort to exonerate Pope Pius XII’s record in World War II.