Roy Speckhardt
Posts by Roy Speckhardt (page 4)
Ignorance Won. Can We Return to Reason?
The time is past due for progressive America to rethink its strategies. As the number of secular freethinkers has risen, they, along with people... Read More
A Humanist Alternative to Religious Confirmation
The prospects of secular humanists who hold to positive, progressive, nontheistic worldviews are on the rise as the idea of being good without a... Read More
Fox News Uses Charleston Shootings to Propagate Culture War
In a move disturbing to even the most cynical critics of the network, Fox News has begun to use the recent tragedy in Charleston,... Read More
What’s the Best Way to Challenge Religious Intrusion?
How many people of faith take seriously the biblical admonition against public prayer—“Be careful about not living righteously merely to be seen by people,”... Read More
“Under God” Makes a Mockery of Religious Freedom
Feb. 10, 2014 was the 60th anniversary of the original congressional move in 1954 that added “under God” to the official Pledge of Allegiance,... Read More
Atheist, Humanist, Secular: Why Fight Over Labels?
No matter how you look at it, the nontheist movement in the U.S. is experiencing momentous growth. According to a Harris poll, those who... Read More
When Will We Have More Atheists in Congress?
AHA Executive Director Roy Speckhardt writes in The Huffington Post this week on the need for more secular elected leaders to represent the growing... Read More