Dangerous Reading

A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush
James A. Haught

Two Cheers for Same-Sex Marriage
Tom Flynn

The Faith-Based Initiative 2.0:
Can We Unplug It?
Rob Boston

applied ethics
Redefining Death
Elliot D. Cohen

Personal Morality
Paul Kurtz

Taken in the Wrong Spirit
Tom Flynn

Defaming Human Rights
Paul Kurtz, Austin Dacey,
and Tom Flynn

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
Wendy Kaminer

‘I Shall Never Get to the Resting Place’
The religious skepticism of Abraham Lincoln
Richard Lawrence Miller

Islam and Human Rights
Defending Universality
at the United Nations
Austin Dacey and Colin Koproske

op-ed
Of Golden Geese and Sacred Cows
Ronald A. Lindsay

god on trial
Have You Heard the Good News?
Katrina Voss

editorial
The Ethics of Secularism
Paul Kurtz

Why Is Polygamy Illegal?
Wendy Kaminer

When Is It time to Let Go?
Peter Singer

America’s Shame: Neglected Treaties
Paul Kurtz with Matt Cravatta

Can We Survive? (part 1)
The Changes Required to Deal Effectively
with Global Warming
Stephen Paley, George K. Oister,
and Richard T. Hull

Can We Survive? (part 2)
The Changes Required to Deal Effectively
with Global Warming
Stephen Paley, George K. Oister,
and Richard T. Hull

op-ed
Christianizing America
Nat Hentoff

humanism at large
Love and Marriage
in Central Pennsylvania
Katrina Voss

Beyond Ponzi Economics
Tom Flynn

Which Century is This?
Christopher Hitchens

A False Quest for a True Islam
Taner Edis

Why Democracy Needs Naturalism
John Shook

transnational humanism
Religion and Child Abuse
Innaiah Narisetti

Scared to Death
Arthur Caplan

forgotten history
Another Holy Horror:
The Cristero War
James A. Haught

Beyond the Believers
Sam Harris

Foreign Policy’s Faux Pas
Why God Belief Is Not Winning
Here and Abroad
Gregory Paul

Expunging Evil
Thomas Simon

op-ed
Who’s Afraid
of Faith-Based Charities?
Tom Flynn

leading questions
On the Record:
An Interview
with Herbert Hauptman
DJ Grothe

editorial
Hurrah for Freedom of Inquiry:
Vital Issues for Secular Humanists
Paul Kurtz

The Myth of Secular Moral Chaos
Sam Harris

The Freedom to Ridicule Religion—
and Deny the Holocaust
Peter Singer

Is Faith Good for Us?
Phil Zuckerman

What’s Wrong with Megachurches?
Tom Flynn

Should We Respect Religion?
Barbara Smoker

A Talk with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi—
the Father of ‘Flow’
Nathan Bupp

Where Are the Moral Believers?
Guy P. Harrison

Crime and Causality:
Do Killers Deserve to Die?
Thomas W. Clark

Can We Bridge the Great Divide?
Paul Kurtz

The Grand Inquisitor Takes the Throne
Robert M. Price

The Legacy of Terri Schiavo
for the Nonreligious
The Disabled Sound the Alarm
Nat Hentoff

Planetary Ethics
Paul Kurtz

humanism at large
Cartoon Religion
Beth Birnbaum

On Advocating Infant Euthanasia
Barbara Smoker

Leo Strauss and the Grand Inquisitor
Shadia B. Drury

What Use is Religion?
Richard Dawkins

My God Problem
Natalie Angier

Reason Embattled
Secularism in Peril
Susan Jacoby

The Great Scandal (part 1)
Christianity’s Role in the Rise of the Nazis
Gregory S. Paul

The Great Scandal (part 2)
Christianity’s Role in the Rise of the Nazis
Gregory S. Paul

Everybody Must Get Cloned
Ideological objections do not hold up
David J. Triggle

Juan Diego
The Saint That Never Was
Mario Mendez Acosta

op-ed
The Final Freedom
Suicide and the ‘New Prohibitionists’
Tom Flynn

Fascism Anyone?
Laurence W. Britt

Why Marriage?
The tie that binds need not be legal
Richard Taylor

Islam and the Liberation of Women
in the Middle East
Separation of Mosque and State
is the Only Answer
Azam Kamguian

Meaning and Nothingness
A personal journey
James A. Haught

editorial
Religious Correctness and the Qur’an
Paul Kurtz

web exclusive
The Silver Bullet Question (part 2)
James H. Dee

web exclusive
Army, Flag, Cross
Stephen J. Gallagher

Evolution, Schmevolution:
Jon Stewart and the Culture Wars
Massimo Pigliucci

Metallica, Nietzsche, and Marx
The Immorality of Morality
Peter S. Fosl
From Metallica and Philosophy

web exclusive
‘It’s a BA-by!’
Richard T. Hull

web exclusive
Politics, Faith and God’s Reality
Tibor R. Machan

web exclusive
Doubts about Celebrating Diversity
Kenneth R. Stunkel

web exclusive
On the Teaching of Religion
Gordon Brumm

leading questions
Inside Christian Nationalism
An Interview with Michelle Goldberg
Andrea Szalanski

leading questions
Separation, Please
An Interview with Barry Lynn
Ronald. A. Lindsay

Kill Them All!
Camus and Administrative Murder
Stephen J. Gallagher

Priests and Child Sexual Abuse
A Secular Humanist Urges Caution
Vern L. Bullough

Set a Place for Islam
Vern L. Bullough

Why Critical Scrutiny of Islam
Is an Utmost Necessity
Can Reason Blunt Fanaticism?
Syed Kamran Mirza

living without religion
No Dog Tags for Atheists
Now, Where’s My Foxhole?
by Daniel O’Neal

Fighting for Our Sanity in Tennessee
Life on the Front Lines
Niall Shanks

A World Without Rainbows?
Wayne Anderson

The Evolution of Thought
James Underdown

The Catholic Doctrine
and Reproductive Health
Why the Church Can’t Change
Stephen D. Mumford

Are Atheists More Depressed
than Religious People?
A New Study Tells the Tale
Franz Buggle, et al.

SETI and the Religions
of Extraterrestrials
O Give Ye Praise Europans
Jill Tarter

Was Joseph Smith for Real?
How He Lied,
Perhaps Even to Himself
Mark D. Thomas

Reason, Sex, and Science
Wendy Kaminer

Why Do People Believe or Disbelieve?
Letting Science Answer the Question
Paul Kurtz

Trying to Prove that the Bible Is Pro-Woman
How Some Feminists Perpetuate Patriarchy
Lena Ksarjian

Letting Children Die for the Faith
Rita Swan

Is Morality a Matter of Taste?
Why Professional Ethicists Think
That Morality Is Not Purely “Subjective”
Theodore Schick, Jr.

The Bible and Astronomy
Hector Avalos

Hitler Was Not An Atheist
John Patrick Michael Murphy

When We “Hit The Wall”
Roy W. Brown

God, Science, and Delusion
A Chat With Arthur C. Clarke
Matt Cherry

What Americans Really Believe
And Why Faith Isn’t As Universal
As They Think
George Bishop

Outlawing Unbelief
Tom Flynn

God at Work
Christopher Hitchens

The New American Plutocracy
Paul Kurtz

Exorcising the Homunculus
There’s No One Behind the Curtain
David C. Noelle

When Explaining Is Explaining Away
Tom Flynn

10 Myths About Secular Humanism
Matt Cherry and Molleen Matsumura

Awesome vs. Adipose
Who Really Works Hardest
to Banish Ignorance?
Peter Atkins

Mother Teresa’s House of Illusions
How She Harmed Her Helpers
As Well As Those They ‘Helped’
Susan Shields

The Night I Saw the Light
Gina Allen

The Two Imperatives of Planetary Ethics
Restoring oceanic dead zones and
reducing world poverty
Paul Kurtz

An Unfruitful Plea
Tom Flynn

Split Hairs and Split Movements
Discrimination Against,
and Disagreements Among,
the Nonreligious
Ronald A. Lindsay

Nothing New Under the Sun
The Louisiana Science Education Act
Barbara Forrest

How to Discredit the Theory of Evolution
Advice for believer
Christian Wright

Fascism American Style
Shadia B. Drury

The Real Perils of Human Population Growth
David and Marcia Pimentel

Secularization Renewed?
Tom Flynn

Profiles of the Godless
Results From a Survey of The Nonreligious
Luke W. Galen

Painful Junction
The Sad Truth about Religion
and Gays in the Military
N. Bonaparte

Some of My Best Friends Are Atheists
Katrina Voss

Is the Universe Rational?
Taner Edis

The Regrettable Return
of ‘Nonsectarianism’
Stuart Whatley

Hope, Despair, Dread, and Religion
Ronald A. Lindsay

On Defining Naturalism as a Worldview
Richard Carrier

Expressing One's Views on Religion
Ronald a. Lindsay

Are Secularists Less Generous?
Tom Flynn