Category: Letters

Solar What? In my article “Thinking Clearly About Clones,” (FI, Summer 1997) I wrote, “I find it a personally riveting thought that I could watch a small copy of myself, 50 years younger and wear-ing a baseball hat instead of a solar topee, nurtured through the early decades of the twenty-first century.” You changed “solar …

Taking Stock It is good to know that Paul Kurtz (“Surviving Bypass and Enjoying the Exuberant Life,” FI, Spring 1997) will be continuing the work of trying to wake up people to the values of humanism. During my recovery period I, too, did a lot of thinking about life, and I concluded that as a …

Is Humanism a Religion? It seems obvious to me that humanism is not a religion. The trickier problem is whether humanism has any sort of faith dimension (“Defining Humanism,” FI, Fall 1996). Obviously, the answer depends on what one means by faith. In a study of New Zealand rationalists and humanists for a Ph.D. thesis, …

What Is Humanism? Hail to FREE INQUIRY for its Fall 1996 issue (“Defining Humanism: The Battle Continues”) on clarifying what secular humanism means to different people, and, above all, what it means to secular humanists. Paul Kurtz was absolutely right to take a separate, secular humanist stand in the 1980s, when those opposed to a …