Dr. David I. Orenstein
Posts by Dr. David I. Orenstein (page 2)
My Meditation on Abby Hafer
This is perhaps one of the hardest essays that I’ve ever written for The Humanist. Not because words fail me, but because each time... Read More
Building a Better Corporate Religion
The Catholic Church is a storied religious organization two-thousand years in the making. It is also a multinational corporation worth an estimated 15 billion... Read More
In Reason We Trust
For many of us in the rationalist and humanist community, the focus on how we define ourselves often falls on the difference between developing... Read More
HUMANISM 101 | Abner Kneeland: The Omega Man of the Early 19th Century Freethought Movement
Imagine you are a citizen living within an irrational society that has laws which state if you blaspheme god, that you can be persecuted... Read More
The Case for a Coordinated Humanistic Global Movement Towards Peace and International Cooperation
Imagine if you will a near future where our global society offers every person regardless of faith, economic status, identity and heritage the freedom... Read More
Threading the Freethought Lives of Hitchens and Sagan
“Humans have limitations, and no one knows this better than scientists. But a multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only... Read More
Empowering Science to Understand our Connected Human Family
Most people who know me, know that since 1968, I have been enamored with the film, The Planet of the Apes. I saw the... Read More