Author: Barry Seidman
Barry Seidman is executive director, Community Outreach with the Center for Inquiry–Metro NY.
Humanism Under Fire: When Atheists Have to Face Applied Humanism
Humanistic principles must be applied in understanding and solving the crisis in the Middle East.
Planetary Humanism and War and Peace
Some secular humanists do not consider the war on Iraq a “core issue” for the humanist movement to address. To them the foundation of secular humanism is atheism, with no political convictions implied. True, a healthy humanist movement should never become so politically partisan as to ignore or denounce conflicting points of view. Ethical nonbelievers …