Author: Herb Silverman

Herb Silverman is founder and president emeritus of the Secular Coalition for America, author of Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt (Pitchstone Publishing, 2012), and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the College of Charleston. This essay was written for The Washington Post’s On Faith blog but rejected on grounds of its, um, profanity.
God-Talk for Atheists
 Free Inquiry Volume 33, No. 5
August / September 2013
 Herb Silverman

Many atheists, including myself, try to avoid the kind of god-talk that some people equate with belief in a deity. Although it’s reflexive in our society to say “God bless you” when someone sneezes, “Gesundheit” (“good health”) would be a more appropriate atheist response. Getting a wallet back from the lost and found with nothing …

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The Day the Charleston City Council Walked Out
 Free Inquiry Volume 23, No. 4
Fall 2003
 Herb Silverman
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Silverman’s Wager
 Free Inquiry Volume 21, No. 2
Spring 2001
 Herb Silverman
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The Notorious Notary
 Free Inquiry Volume 18, No. 3
Summer 1998
 Herb Silverman
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The Candidate Without a Prayer
 Free Inquiry Volume 12, No. 4
Fall 1992
 Herb Silverman
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