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American democracy needs sweeping and, yes, socialistic reform, or the nation will stumble into empire.

If we count biblical inconsistencies as subjects on which God voted against himself, the scope of biblical errancy becomes stunningly clear.

America’s great satanism scare has faded to a footnote of history, but we must not forget its lessons.

A foundational research paper underlying the field of positive psychology has been, well, positively refuted.

Letters in response to Free Inquiry volume 35, issue 6

“American public schools are under attack by a confluence of conservative, Republican, private, profit-seeking, and clericalist private interests.”

The argument is irresistibly clear: Since rape exists, God must not.

Looking back at a life that has moved from a dependent Catholicism to an autonomous humanism.

Philosophy and science overcame the strictures of my small-town religion.

A review of Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World, by David Silverman.

A review of Creating Change Through Humanism, by Roy Speckhardt.

A review of The Faith of a Heretic, by Walter Kaufmann.

A review of Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, by Tim Whitmarsh.

The snowflake makers’ union said, “We’re going out on strike Against the rule that tells us no Two flakes can be alike. “Every water molecule Is more or less the same, So when we cobble them together, Why in Heaven’s name “Can we not turn out multiples Of the patterns we like best? The one-and-done …

Without free expression, the other rights we revere stand on quicksand. Religious ideas and leaders must be as subject as any others to criticism and even satire.

Blasphemy laws threaten religious freedom in many countries; the situation is most severe in Pakistan.

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.

Banglaesh’s best-known critic of all religions reflects on her new exile.

How did International Blasphemy Rights Day begin? Recollections of one who was there.

The popular image of Jesus as a man of peace is not supported even by the Bible. Nontheists should stop paying it lip service.

I don’t credit God for my extraordinary recovery from illness, but I won’t begrudge my friends the satisfaction they got from praying for me.

I won’t be a jerk and tell you your prayers for me are in vain. But I will ask you to give to a scientific charity instead.

Believers today ready to defend, preach, proselytize, or even kill and die for their faith are likely dedicating their lives to ideas they hold by accident.

Readers sound off on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East. The first of two parts.

The arguments favoring the right to blaspheme have changed little in nine years. But they’re still right.

Destruction is the fanatic’s way of clearing away reality for a better view of the nonexistent divine.

The Christian concept of grace has pernicious effects for morality—and for world affairs.

The case for “trigger warnings” and similar content notes.

The commitment to free speech may admit of exceptions. But a more important principle may be to be vigilant for dishonesty and disingenuity, not only in our opponents’ positions but in our own.

Alleged encounters with the miraculous aren’t simply common; they’re way too common.

“In less than six months, four
secular bloggers have been attacked and killed by machete-wielding men in Bangladesh.”

Letters in response to Free Inquiry volume 35, issue 5.

“While Francis said in January that Catholics do not need to ‘breed like rabbits,’ he refused to back down on the Church’s contraception ban.”

Walter Kaufmann saved skepticism, almost singlehandedly, from McCarthyite repression and Eisenhoweresque torpor.

The author explains why scientists and Christian apologists need to be held to the same standards of argumentation.

Sometimes life finds a forceful way to remind us that ultimately, we’re all roadkill.

A review of What If I’m a(n) Atheist? A Teen’s Guide to Exploring a Life Without Religion, by David Seidman.

A review of Madison’s Music: On Reading the First Amendment, by Burt Neuborne.

A review of Revolutionary Ideas: The Rights of Man to Robespierre, by Jonathan Israel.

The Center for Inquiry extends its deepest condolences to the family of Lavanam.