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June/July 2013

Volume 33, Number 4

Selected articles available online.
Why aren’t all the articles available online?


Research Report: Does Religion Really Make Us Better People?

A Skeptical Review of Religious Prosociality Research
Luke W. Galen and Jeremy Beahan

Cheating or Leveling the Playing Field?
Rethinking How We Ask Questions About Religion in the United States

Ryan T. Cragun and Barry A. Kosmin


The Secular Therapist Project
Darrel W. Ray

Beware of Mental Traps
Why We Need to Overcome Them to Survive the Twenty-First Century
Hector F. Sierra

Dear Lottie
Fritz Williams


EDITORIAL

Is Religion Dying?
Tom Flynn


OP-EDS

Atheist Birthday Cake
Ophelia Benson

Government in America–What’s It For?
Tibor R. Machan

Exposing Christian Propaganda
Shadia B. Drury

Secular Humanists Are Winning, Winning
James A. Haught

The Legacy of Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI
George A. Wells


LETTERS


DEPARTMENTS

Church-State Update
Trouble Down Under
Edd Doerr

Humanistically Speaking
Of Persons, Human Beings, Things Human, Roses, and Toxic Waste Dumps
Andrew S. Ryan Jr.

Humanism at Large
Does God Send People to Hell?
Richard Schoenig


REVIEWS

God or Godless: One Atheist. One Christian. Twenty Controversial Questions by John W. Loftus and Randal Rauser
Reviewed by Robert M. Price

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
Reviewed by Wayne L. Trotta

The Enlightenment Vision: Science, Reason, and the Promise of a Better Future by Stuart Jordan
Reviewed by Edd Doerr

What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster by Jonathan V. Last
Reviewed by Tom Flynn

“It’s Not About the Sex,” My Ass: Confessions of an Ex-Mormon Ex-Polygamist Ex-Wife by Joanne Hanks as told to Steve Cuno
Reviewed by Tom Flynn


POEMS

Untitled by Marybeth Rua-Larsen

Vision by Charlotte Innes


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