Remember Ebola?
Whatever became of Ebola? For weeks in October 2014, it was all the rage in America. Patients coming for treatment in Atlanta and Nebraska were monitored by a swarming media. A physician kept New York...
View ArticleSecularism Humanism: Not a Religion
Litigation always carries risk—first of all, the risk of losing one’s case, but also the risk that a court decision will bring unintended consequences. The Freedom From Religion Foundation discovered...
View ArticleAlbert Schweitzer and The Quest of the Historical Jesus—One Hundred Years On
In the fifty years since the death of Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), his famous The Quest of the Historical Jesus has lost none of its releva nce. Originally published in 1906 and revised and extended...
View ArticleScience and the Emancipation of Humankind
The claim that science is an inherently amoral and thus apolitical enterprise has been repeated so often that it has almost passed unquestioned into the common wisdom of our time. Is science merely...
View ArticleKrishnasamy Veeramani: Continuing the Fight for Humanism
Krishnasamy Veeramani is a lawyer turned social activist who fights for humanism in South India. He currently leads the Dravidar Kazhagam (Dravidian Organization), which promotes freedom and...
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Periyar and India’s Dravidian Movement: A Strident Atheist in the Land of...
There is no God. There is no God. There is no God at all. He who invented God is a fool. He who propagates God is a knave. He who worships God is a primitive. —Periyar For the past five decades, a...
View ArticleWar and the Religious State
Most Westerners consider the excessive violence of ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) to be a product of Islamic extremism, a sign of how uniquely inhumane the Muslim faith can be....
View ArticleIs One of These Things Not Just Like the Other? Why Abortion Can’t Be...
We have come to a pretty pass: advocates of family planning, who have long believed they could shelter their cause from unending fundamentalist attacks on reproductive health services only if they...
View ArticleWhite Lies for Life: Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Los Angeles
“Gloria” (not her real name) was sixteen when she entered a “crisis pregnancy center” and said she was afraid she was pregnant. The only volunteer there, a sweet woman behind an uncluttered desk,...
View ArticleWhy Secularism Is Necessary for Women
Secularism is necessary for women’s freedom simply because religions—all religions—are opposed to women’s freedom. No woman can have the rights and freedoms she deserves under any religion’s la ws....
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