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Our Secular Decade: Goals and Tactics of the Nontheist Movement
Secular Americans have been perceived unjustly as a marginal group, a cranky group and--sometimes with justification--an infighting group. If we want to return American life to its secular heritage, we must define ourselves as an organized,... Read More
Nontheists Go to Washington: The White House Gives Us a Seat at the Table
On Friday, February 26, I had the privilege of attending the Secular Coalition for America's Briefing with the Obama Administration for what was a truly a remarkable moment in our movement's--and the nation's--history. Of course, the... Read More
Trailblazers Wanted: Perfection Not Required
One of the easiest ways to insult an atheist or humanist is to compare him or her to a religious fundamentalist. So prepare for an insult. Atheists, like fundamentalists, believe in perfect beings. Not in deities,... Read More
Lonesome No More! Kurt Vonnegut’s Freethinking Heritage
On April 27, 2007, Kurt Vonnegut was scheduled to speak in Indianapolis as part of the city-proclaimed Year of Vonnegut (he was born and raised in Indianapolis where his family had long-established roots). I was to... Read More
Praying for Sex
A 140-year-old organization in London called the “Catholic Truth Society” has published a new “Prayer Book for Spouses,” containing among other things a prayer to be recited by couples before engaging in sex. The prayer runs... Read More
THE ISSUE AT HAND
I FELL IN LOVE with Holden Caulfield the first time I read The Catcher in the Rye in the mid ‘80s. A year or so later I read it in my high school English class and... Read More
Humanism on the Move
STAFF REPORTFor HumanistNetworkNews.org Feb. 17, 2010 American Atheists has welcomed a study from the Trends in Cognitive Sciences journal that reports that those who don't believe in God are as ethical as churchgoers and that religion... Read More
Our Founders Were NOT Fundamentalists
GUEST COLUMN By HARVEY WASSERMANFor HumanistNetworkNews.org Feb. 17, 2010 "God made the idiot for practice, and then He made the school board." -- Mark Twain This last issue of the New York Times Sunday Magazine highlights yet... Read More
Humanism on the Move
STAFF REPORTFor HumanistNetworkNews.org Feb. 30, 2010 Since the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) broke the news that the U.S. Military was using high-powered rifle sights that had coded references to Bible passages, the company contracted to... Read More
Hypocrisy, Thy Name is Haggard
A weekly commentary by Hemant Mehta, adapted from his blog "The Friendly Atheist." For HumanistNetworkNews.org Feb. 3, 2010Gayle Haggard has been appearing everywhere, from Oprah to Larry King Live, to talk about her new book, Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made... Read More