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Wanted: Moral Education for Secular Children

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Op-Ed

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Collateral Damage, Part 1

Richard Dawkins

15

The New Hate Speech

Tom Flynn

18

A Regular Guy

David Koepsell

19

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

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Dennis Saleh

Departments

8

Leading Questions
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9

Letters

45

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr and Tom Flynn

46

Great Minds
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Stephen L. Tanner

49

Living Without Religion
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Colin Koproske

51

God on Trial
My God, How the Money
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James A. Haught

53

The Religion Department
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R. Joseph Hoffmann

53

Islam Watch
The Nature of the Literary
Evidence: A Dialogue on
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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

Editorial

4

Religion in Conflit

Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed

12

Collateral Damage, Part 2

Richard Dawkins

14

Don't Look Now . . .

Tom Flynn

16

The End of Faith in Politics

David Koepsell

18

Above Contempt

Wendy Kaminer

20

Beyond the Believers

Sam Harris

22

Exterminating the Enemy

Shadia B. Drury

23

They Call Him Mister Ratzinger!

Christopher Hitchens

25

An Atheist for the Free Personal Exercise of Religion

Nat Hentoff

27

Naturalism Research Project Launched at Center for Inquiry

John Shook

Features: Post-christian europe . . . will it stay secular?

29

Supply, Demand, and Secularization

Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart

33

Reason and Religion

Herman Philipse

38

The Postmodern Interpretation of Religious Terrorism

Paul Cliteur

41

Julian Baggini

45

An Irreverent Look at Religion in the Netherlands

Hans Jansen

48

Vern Bullough (1928-2006)

Tom Flynn

49

Vern Bullough: An Appreciation

Martha Cornog

51

Phil Paulson Took Nothing on Faith

Keith Taylor

Departments

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Leading Questions Virulent Religion and Its Inoculants A Talk with Susan Blackmore

9

Letters

52

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr and Tom Flynn

53

Global Humanism Isolated in a Catholic Country

Kaz Dziamka

54

Faith and Reason Ten Years of Campus Activism

Derek Araujo

56

Humanism at Large God, Hurricanes, and Mountain Dew

Katrina Voss

Reviews

57

TThe Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth By E.O. Wilson

Paul Kurtz

58

The Faiths of the Founding Fathers By David L. Holmes and Washington's God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country By Michael Novak and Jana Novak

Susan Jacoby

60

The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss, Updated Edition By Shadia B. Drury

Nathan Bupp

63

Atheists: A Groundbreaking Study of America's Nonbelievers By Bruce E. Hunsberger and Bob Altemeyer

Tom Flynn

64

One Nation under Man? The Worldview War between Christians and the Secular Left By Brannon Howse

Tom Flynn

Editorial

4

'Yes' to Naturalism, Secularism, and Humanism

Paul Kurtz

8

Appreciating the Human Perspective

John M. Novak

Op-Ed

14

Prospective Impact: The Jesus Project

Tom Flynn

16

Against Solipsism

David Koepsell

18

A Case for Veganism

Peter Singer

20

Adrift in the Information Revolution

Nat Hentoff

22

Science, Education, and the Common Good

Michael Ben-Chaim and Barry A. Kosmin

Poems
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49

On Seeing a Photo of Myself Taken Thirty Years Ago

54

Scoutmaster's Report VIII: Becoming Part of It

56

What I Should Have Said

Features

24

What Really Happened? The Rise of Primitive Christianity, 30-70 c.e.

Gerd LŸdemann

32

A Faith Suited for the Dark Ages

Arthur Blech

35

Science and Belief on the Cusp of the 'Chinese Century'

David Koepsell

36

The State of Science and Technology

Zhi-Kang Tian and Xiufeng Liu

37

Environmental Crises

Zhi-Kang Tian and Xiufeng Liu

39

Where's the Meaning in a Natural World?

John Shook

Departments

10

Leading Questions Humanism as Existentialism A Conversation with Robert Solomon

12

Letters

41

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr and Tom Flynn

42

Applied Ethics Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin?

Eric Reitan

44

Science and Religion A Painful Reality

Rick Heller

46

Forgotten History Another Holy Horror

James A. Haught

48

Faith and Reason A Lesson from Marco Polo

John A. Frantz

50

The Religion Department The Jesus Project

R. Joseph Hoffmann

53

Transnational Humanism Positive Atheism in India

Bill Cooke

55

A Word from Ingersoll Is Christianity a Failure?

Robert Green Ingersoll

Reviews

57

God, The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows that God Does Not Exist By Victor J. Stenger

Tom Flynn

58

Promethean Love: Paul Kurtz and the Humanistic Perspective on Love Edited by Timothy J. Madigan

Tim Delaney

59

Further Thoughts

Nathan Bupp

61

The Theocons: Secular America under Siege By Damon Linker

Michelle Goldberg

62

O Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America By William H. Colby

Ronald A. Lindsay

Editorial

4

The Industrial- Technological Revolution

Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed

14

The Big M

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
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51

Before Your Grandma's Funeral

56

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

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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

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

12

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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

Editorial

4

Secular Humanist Morality

Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed

12

The God Delusion: Introducing the Paperback

Richard Dawkins

15

Secularization Resurrected

Tom Flynn

17

The Zeitgeist Stirs

Christopher Hitchens

18

Supreme Sectarians

Wendy Kaminer

19

Do You Know the Mutton Man?

Arthur Caplan

21

Faith, Hope, and Charity

Shadia B. Drury

23

Schools without the State?

Tibor R. Machan

24

Winners of Sam Harris Contest Announced

Features

27

WIntroduction

John Shook

28

Reflections on Human Rights (1970)

Sidney Hook

32

The Future of the Public-Private Distinction

Colin Koopman

35

The Individual and Individual Rights

Ron Dultz

40

A Clash of Christianities

Thomas Mates

45

Why Democracy Needs Naturalism

John Shook

48

A False Quest for a True Islam

Taner Edis

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Leading Questions The Myth of Happiness A Conversation with Jennifer Michael Hecht

9

Letters

52

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr and Tom Flynn

53

Great Minds Thus Spoke Friedrich Nietzsche

Jeannette Lowen

56

Living Without Religion The Godless Freshman

Allen B. Downey

58

Islam Watch Islamic Anti-Semitism Part 2 of 3

Ibn Warraq

60

The Religion Department One God Part 2

R. Joseph Hoffmann

Reviews

62

The Physics of Christianity By Frank J. Tipler

Victor J. Stenger

63

PTempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction By David Kuo

Stephen Gallagher

65

Relics of the Christ By Joe Nickell

Robert M. Price

Editorial

4

Neo-Humanism

Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed

11

The God Delusion: Phenomenon (Part 2)

Richard Dawkins

13

Humanism and Civil Rights

David Koepsell

15

Which Century Is This?

Christopher Hitchens

17

Morality and Privacy

Peter Singer

18

Bush Ignores Crucial Laws He Signs

Nat Hentoff

20

A History of Disbelief Hits the Airwaves

Mark-Anthony Smith

Features

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7

Leading Questions Religion’s Divisiveness in America A Conversation with Peter Irons

8

Letters

55

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr and Tom Flynn

56

Humanism and Politics; Unbelief and the Vote

Tom Shipka

58

Islam Watch Islamic Anti-Semitism Part 3 of 3

Ibn Warraq

Reviews

60

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything By Christopher Hitchens

Jennifer Michael Hecht

63

Jesus of Nazareth By Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI

Gerd Lüdemann

65

The Assault on Reason By Al Gore

Edd Doerr