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Favorite Pastime? A Seventh-Inning Walk through Hell in a Gasoline Suit

by TheHumanist.com Staff • 15 October 2014

“I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.”  –Pete Rose Ah, yes, nothing unites—and divides—our country like that great game of baseball and the conversations it inspires. Passionate debates abound: Which is... Read More

Forget Blessed: Can’t We All Just Have a “Nice” Day?

by TheHumanist.com Staff • 14 October 2014

Reader Laurel Harry, a member of the American Humanist Association, recently shared the following letter with us (reprinted here with her permission): I am writing regarding the use of “Have a blessed day” by employees... Read More

Atheists and Aliens: Would the Existence of Extraterrestrials Mean the End of Religion?

by Merrill Miller • 7 October 2014

In A Brief History of Time Professor Stephen Hawking asks, “…if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place,... Read More

Five Non-Magic Words: “How Can I Help You?” Advancing the Humanist Chaplaincy

by Maureen Wheat • 16 April 2014

Chaplaincy is a very personal “calling” for me that began in the early 1980s, rooted in an ethical stance of compassion, love, respect, and justice. I was living in Boston at the time and was... Read More

Officially Quirky: Aside from the Bible, Some State’s Official Symbols Will Surprise You

by Jennifer Bardi • 14 April 2014

A bill recently filed in Louisiana would make the Bible that state’s official book. Not any Bible, mind you, but their oldest edition of the Holy Bible, published by Johannes Prevel in the early 1500s... Read More

What’s the Best Way to Challenge Religious Intrusion?

by Roy Speckhardt • 8 April 2014

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,” (Matthew 6:1)? Everywhere you turn more religious people are trying to... Read More

George Washington Never Wrote That Jesus Prayer

by Fred Edwords • 28 March 2014

A lawsuit by the American Humanist Association and four individual plaintiffs resulted in a federal ruling on Tuesday, March 25, that placed a preliminary injunction on the Board of Commissioners of Carroll County, Maryland. The... Read More

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