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America’s Addiction to Belief
Henceforth, people will be looking at the universe with the eyes of oxen. —Katib Chelebi, seventeenth-century geographer “Barack Obama won’t show us his birth certificate,” insists Steve, a Connecticut resident and small business owner, while shoveling... Read More
Legal Updates
STAFF REPORTFor HumanistNetworkNews.org June 30, 2010 The American Humanist Association and its legal arm, the Appignani Humanist Legal Center, have weighed in on important court decisions that have come down the past two weeks, as well... Read More
Young in a World at War
By JANET JEPPSON ASIMOV For HumanistNetworkNews.org June 16, 2010 The following is an autobiographical letter written by Janet J. Asimov to her teenage relatives. It's reprinted in its entirety. You who are reading this... Read More
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COLUMN By RICHARD WADE For HumanistNetworkNews.org June 09, 2010 You may send your questions for Richard to AskRichard@ca.rr.com. (Questions may be edited.) All questions will eventually be answered, but not all can be published. There are... Read More
Prom in Mississippi: AHA Leaders and Friends Promote Love Over Hate
By MAGGIE ARDIENTE For HumanistNetworkNews.org May 13, 2010 Leaders and friends of the American Humanist Association were proud to participate in the second annual Second Chance Prom at the Bancorp South Arena in Tupelo, Mississippi. The... Read More
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By AUSTIN NICHOLS For HumanistNetworkNews.org May 05, 2010 The first YouTube video I watched by British comedian Pat Condell was titled "What have I got against religion?" After watching it, I was hooked; there was no... Read More
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is the biography of a man, Bernard A. Schriever, who has profoundly affected the United States and the rest of the world since the early 1950s (he was the... Read More
The Mystery of Evil and Suffering
If God is all-powerful and all-knowing, and if God is good, how can he allow evil and suffering to exist? Scholars know this question’s answer by the four-syllable name theodicy. The ancient Hebrews, those who wrote... Read More
Christians, Homosexuality, and the Same-Sex Marriage Question
Humanity has a curious relationship with sex. It obviously enjoys it—there are nearly seven billion people in the world and not all that output could be the fruit of duty. Yet, for a practice so widespread... Read More
The HUMANIST Interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Author and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s new novel, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (Pantheon, 2010), follows the past and present of one Cass Seltzer, a professor of the philosophy of... Read More