Appeared in Free Inquiry, vol 32 issue 3

Letters - Vol 32, No 3

LETTERS   On Excrement and ‘Spirit’ Talk Three cheers for Tom Flynn’s espousal of straightforward atheistic language, as opposed to the euphemistic (not to say pusillanimous) use of words like spiritual and sacred, carried over from discarded beliefs (“Excrement Eventuates!” FI, February/March 2012). As Flynn indicates, this mealy-mouthed humanism gives...