With fifteen ballots to elect a Speaker, the 118th Congress rolled out to an interesting start. In this new Congress, the American Humanist Association (AHA) and its political and advocacy arm, the Center for Freethought Equality (CFE), will continue to defend civil liberties and secular governance, build relationships, and advance priorities in the policy realms […]
Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation An Iranian-born feminist and secularist offers key insights about the recent protests in her country of origin on the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s “Freethought Matters” TV show this Sunday. Maryam Namazie has herself been leading protests against Iran in the
Read More Skeptic In the Partisan Accuracy & Divisions Study (PADS), we conducted an extensive survey of over 3,000 American adults to assess their accuracy about a variety of controversial topics including, abortion, immigration, gender, race, crime, and the economy. So much of our political discourse revolves around these topics—but how much do we really
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Read More Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! The rights, beliefs, and freedoms of nonbelievers are just as important as those of the religious faithful. We should strive for—we should demand—a world where the ability to live and think freely is available to everyone. It’s a
As chair of the board of directors of the Center for Inquiry (CFI), which publishes this magazine, I and CFI General Counsel Nicholas Little have filed numerous briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court detailing why the religious Right wing is wrong when it asserts that government can favor religious belief over nonbelief and that government
by Anonymous1 As membership on the United States Supreme Court has changed, religious liberty has been transformed. In 2021, the precedent governing the past thirty years of free exercise exemption from general applicable laws, Employment Division v. Smith,2 was not only overturned, but the Court did not adopt a new standard in its place. Instead,
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When I was about five years old, I learned a card game called War. Two players are dealt twenty-six cards face down. Each then simultaneously shows the top card, and the player showing the higher value takes both exposed cards and places them at the bottom of his or her stack. If both cards are
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From the time we are able to understand anything at all as children, most of us are taught that when jumping into the abyss of the great questions of existence, one finds oneself immediately face to face with God. But it is a great paradox that we humans have been endowed with a rather incredible
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Near the edge of the Kalahari, an enormous cave named Wonderwerk shelters archaeologists, and other animals, from the South African sun. This old cave is, in fact, ancient. Wonderwerk was home to our distant ancestors over one million years ago. We know this because they left things behind: stone tools and animal bones. More exciting
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Editor’s introduction: Carl W. Wilson (1924–2022) was an evangelical Christian pastor and author who published several books between 1976 and 2016, many of which sought to provide a conservative Christian analysis of contemporary culture, science, and ideas. His son, David Carl Wilson, intended to follow in his father’s footsteps and “become an intellectual defender of
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