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December / January 2007

Volume 27 Number 1


Table of Contents With Links to Select Articles Online

Editorial

4

Wanted: Moral Education for Secular Children

Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed



12

Collateral Damage, Part 1

Richard Dawkins

15

No Laughing Allowed

Wendy Kaminer

21

The Ethics of Forced Drug Treatment for Addicts

Arthur Caplan

Features: Science, Ethics, and the Soul


23

Stem Cell Research: An Approach to Bioethics Based on Scientific Naturalism

Ronald A. Lindsay

27

'It's a BA-by!'

Richard Hull

32

The American Inquisition

Roderick Bradford

38

African Americans for Humanism in Africa

Norm R. Allen Jr.

41

Foreign Policy's Faux Pas

Gregory Paul

44

Poems Nocturnal and Conch

Dennis Saleh

Departments



8

Leading Questions Separation, Please An Interview with Barry Lynn

9

Letters

45

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr and Tom Flynn

46

Great Minds Lionel Trilling and the Humanist Tradition

Stephen L. Tanner

49

Living Without Religion The Secular Stigma

Colin Koproske

51

God on Trial My God, How the Money Rolls In

James A. Haught

53

The Religion Department Speaking of God . . .

R. Joseph Hoffmann

53

Islam Watch The Nature of the Literary Evidence: A Dialogue on Methodology, Part 2

Ibn Warraq

Reviews



59

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon By Daniel C. Dennett

Richard Sosis

60

Daniel C. Dennett Responds

62

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon By Daniel C. Dennett

R. Joseph Hoffmann

64

The God Delusion By Richard Dawkins

Daniel Dennett

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June / July 2007

Volume 27 Number 4


Table of Contents With Links to Select Articles Online

Editorial

4

The Industrial- Technological Revolution

Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed



14

The Big Mt

Tom Flynn

16

Bringing Something to the Table

David Koepsell

18

Biblical Religion and Deadly Wars

Shadia B. Drury

20

Treating (or Not) the Tiniest Babies

Peter Singer

22

Porn, Punishment, and Hysteria

Wendy Kaminer

24

Bullshitting about Atheism

Christopher Hitchens

22

Scared to Death

Arthur Caplan

Poems
by Wendy Babiak


51

Before Your Grandma's Funeral

56

Flipping Through Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations after Dinner and a Movie

Features


27

'Sir John' Templeton's Foundation and the New Trinitarianism

Alexander Saxton

35

Political vs. Scientific Truth

Ophelia Benson

39

The Civilizing Influence of Monotheisms Questioned

Arthur Blech

43

Why Consciousness?

Kenneth E. Nahigian

Departments



10

Leading Questions Nothing: Something to Believe In A Talk with Nica Lalli

12

Letters

46

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr

47

Great Minds

Timothy Binga

48

Why Men Believe

Emanuel Haldeman-Julius

50

Applied Ethics Privacy and RFID

Jeroen van den Hoven

52

Living Without Religion In Defense of Radicalism

Norm R. Allen Jr.

53

Transnational Humanism Religion and Child Abuse

Innaiah Narisetti

55

It's Only Natural The Responsibilities of Being an Atheist

John Shook

57

Islam Watch Islamic Anti-Semitism Part 1 of 3

Ibn Warraq

59

The Religion Department One God Part 1

R. Joseph Hoffmann

Reviews



60

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God By Carl Sagan, Edited by Ann Druyan

John Shook

62

African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Sociocultural Dynamics of Faith By Michael Lackey

Norm R. Allen Jr.

64

Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam By Michel Onfray

David Layton

66

Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister's Wife Examines Faith By Carlene Cross

Joe E. Barnhart

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June / July 2007

Volume 27 Number 4


Table of Contents With Links to Select Articles Online

Editorial

4

The Industrial- Technological Revolution

Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed



14

The Big Mt

Tom Flynn

16

Bringing Something to the Table

David Koepsell

18

Biblical Religion and Deadly Wars

Shadia B. Drury

20

Treating (or Not) the Tiniest Babies

Peter Singer

22

Porn, Punishment, and Hysteria

Wendy Kaminer

24

Bullshitting about Atheism

Christopher Hitchens

22

Scared to Death

Arthur Caplan

Poems
by Wendy Babiak


51

Before Your Grandma's Funeral

56

Flipping Through Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations after Dinner and a Movie

Features


27

'Sir John' Templeton's Foundation and the New Trinitarianism

Alexander Saxton

35

Political vs. Scientific Truth

Ophelia Benson

39

The Civilizing Influence of Monotheisms Questioned

Arthur Blech

43

Why Consciousness?

Kenneth E. Nahigian

Departments



10

Leading Questions Nothing: Something to Believe In A Talk with Nica Lalli

12

Letters

46

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr

47

Great Minds

Timothy Binga

48

Why Men Believe

Emanuel Haldeman-Julius

50

Applied Ethics Privacy and RFID

Jeroen van den Hoven

52

Living Without Religion In Defense of Radicalism

Norm R. Allen Jr.

53

Transnational Humanism Religion and Child Abuse

Innaiah Narisetti

55

It's Only Natural The Responsibilities of Being an Atheist

John Shook

57

Islam Watch Islamic Anti-Semitism Part 1 of 3

Ibn Warraq

59

The Religion Department One God Part 1

R. Joseph Hoffmann

Reviews



60

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God By Carl Sagan, Edited by Ann Druyan

John Shook

62

African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Sociocultural Dynamics of Faith By Michael Lackey

Norm R. Allen Jr.

64

Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam By Michel Onfray

David Layton

66

Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister's Wife Examines Faith By Carlene Cross

Joe E. Barnhart

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