Editorial
HUMANIST MANIFESTO 2000: A Call For A New Planetary Humanism
Op-Ed
Protect My Children From the Ten Commandments - Lewis Vaughn The Making of a Hero - Vern L. Bullough My Exodus to Secular Humanism - Adolf Grünbaum AIDS in the Developing World: Where Is Your Anger? - Richard Stern Preventing School Violence: Is Religion the Answer? - Gary L. Bennett
Features
Medical Ethics
Forward to Methusaleh - Timothy J. Madigan
Reason, Sex, and Science - Wendy Kaminer Deconstructs Pop Culture and Piety
Meanwhile on the Planet Vatican: Humanist Science Fiction from Tom Flynn
Can You Go to Heaven? - Theodore Schick, Jr.
Departments
Letters
Great Minds The Woman's Bible - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Church-State Update It's a Miracle: No National Day of Prayer - Tom Flynn
God on Trial
Humanism at Large
Book Reviews
Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquest from the Seventh to the Twenty-First Centuries by
Paul Fregosi - Paul Kurtz Amy's View (1997), Plenty (1996), Plays by David Hare - Jim Herrick What Remains to be Discovered? Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of
Life, and the Future of the Human Race, by John Maddox - Tom Flynn Atheism & Theism by J.J.C. Smart and J.J. Haldane - Norm R. Allen, Jr. Leaving the Cave: Evolutionary Naturalism in the Social-Scientific Thought by Pat Duffy
Hutcheon - John Novak Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould - Tom
Flynn
Confronting the "Corporate Mystique" - Paul Kurtz
Op-Ed
Taking Disbelief Out of the Closet - Alan M. Dershowitz
Clinton, Starr, and Media Dreck - Richard Kostelanetz
A Serb's View of NATO's Bombs - Svetozar Stojanovic
Faith vs. African Americans - Saab Lofton
The Future of Feminism - Betty Friedan
Why Gore Is the Only Hope for Church-State Separation - Edward Tabash
Features
The Science of Religion
Introduction: The Roots of Religion and Its Destiny - Tom Flynn
The Past of an Illusion - Lionel Tiger
Social-Psychological Causes of Faith - Bruce Hunsberger
God, Life, and Avocado-Colored Kitchen Appliances - Interview with George Carlin
The Night I Saw Jesus - Richard Taylor
Father's Day - Phillip Zeppetello
Departments
Letters
Great Minds - Salvation - Langston Hughes
Church-State Update - Christian Coalition Sins Against IRS - Tom Flynn
God on Trial - Revisiting Arguments to Design - Antony Flew
Humanism at Large
Book Reviews
Looking for Jesus - Robert M. Price
Holy Pornography - Amanda Chesworth
Noah's Little God - James Underwood
New Age Odyssey - Tom Flynn
Defining Terms - Thomas O'Brien
Editorial
India's Population Time Bomb - Paul Kurtz
Op-Ed
Killing Intellectuals in Algeria - Elie Chalala
Let's Consider All the Unborn - George Englebretsen
Hitler Was Not An Atheist - John Patrick Michael Murphy
Religion and Human Rights - John M. Suarez
Are Scientists Still Keeping the Faith? - George F. Bishop
The Wall Street Journal Gets Religion - Joe Levee
Features
World Population
Introduction: World on the Brink - Roy W. Brown
The Numbers Don't Lie - Lester R. Brown
The Misery Behind the Statistics - Diana Brown
Avoiding Future Shock - Carl Wahren
Playing with People's Lives - Craig Lasher
The Case Against the Vatican - Frances Kissling
God, Science, and Delusion: A Chat with Arthur C. Clarke
Science and Sensibility, Part 2 - Richard Dawkins
Why Postmodernism Is Not Progressive - Barbara Epstein
Departments
Letters
Church-State Update - "Bible Week" in Arizona ... and Worse - Tom Flynn
Great Minds - Reason, Not Theology - Baron d'Holbach
Media Scan - Readers Beware of Digest Report - John Hill
Applied Ethics - Reproductive Medicine and Ethics - Richard Taylor
Humanism at Large - Matt Cherry
Book Reviews
New Directions for Liberalism - Paul Kurtz
The Very Sensible Kaminer - Wendy McElroy
Awe Understood - Chris Mooney
Religious Naturalism - Barbara Forrest
Careless Analysis - Chris Mooney
Editorial
The McCarthyites of Virtue - Paul Kurtz
Op-Ed
Letting Children Die for the Faith - Rita Swan
Abortion Access Under the Gun - Stacey Blyth
The Jesus Seminar: Historians or Believers? - Robert M. Price
Racism and the Risks of Ethnic Humor - Steven Doloff
Christian Literalists and Homosexuality - Vern L. Bullough
The Failure of Faith in Russia - V. L. Ginsburg
Features
Family Values
Introduction: Rescuing Family Values - Matt Cherry
Why There Is No `Crisis of Families' - Vern L. Bullough
Ten Reasons Why the Religious Right Is Not Pro-Family - Rob Boston
A Vision of Families for the Twenty-First Century - Matt Cherry and Molleen Matsumura
Profile In Courage
Introduction: Voices of Freedom - Matt Cherry
One Brave Woman vs. Religious Fundamentalism - An Interview with Taslima Nasrin
Science and Sensibility, Part 1 - Richard Dawkins
God and the Philosophers, Part 3 - Paul Edwards
Trying to Prove that the Bible Is Pro-Woman - Lena Ksarjian
Departments
Letters
Church-State Update - Tracking Challenges to the First Amendment - Tom Flynn
Great Minds - Facts and Myths About Women - Simone de Beauvoir
Science And Religion - Has Science Found God? - Victor J. Stenger
Humanism at Large - Matt Cherry
Book Reviews
The Book that Launched a Fatwa - James Herrick
Remembrances of Apocalypses Past - James C. Sullivan
George Eliot: A Great Novelist and a Great Humanist - James Herrick
Salvation through Diversity - Barbara Forrest
From Monotheism to Democracy - Barbara Forrest
Aesthetic Naturalism - John M. Novak
Words of Warning - John A. Xanthopoulos
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