She explained it to me this way: god put the world together and afterwards added men then women from dust filled both with blood, organs brains and put souls inside among veins, tissues, water – seventy five percent I’m told – and after all that humans were complete ready to be judged by their creator invisible as she may be I have seen many things become full
In today’s politically charged environment, we are increasingly confronted with people supporting their particular agenda with misinformation and distortion. This form of dialog has reared its ugly head in our politics, in our schools, and even in the slightest interaction with strangers. Commentaries printed on the opinion pages of my local newspaper the last few weeks are prime examples of this rising epidemic of global hot air. The authors are not interested in reason, logic, or facts, just in pursuing … Read on…
truly cultured real humanists always consider the magnificence of the human personality they do not begin sweating and twitching when encountering an unfriendly waitress bad driving loudness or shyness
Ordinarily I ignore religion, just as I ignore astrology or palmistry. Sure, religion may have great social, even political impact, as a recent issue of The Economist illustrates (November 3-9, 2007). But I have much to do, so I leave religion as a very low “priority” on my daily agenda. Recently, however, I was part of a large group—3000 +/- residents—evacuated from Silverado Canyon, in Southern California’s Orange County, because of very serious threats of major fires and the difficulty … Read on…
My excursions into classical philosophy and the great world religions have always left me disappointed. Plato and Aristotle were brilliant, the Old Testament prophets were inspiring, and Christ and his followers were lovable, but when you put them all together in a blender, as we have done with our so-called Judeo-Christian ethic, what I end up with is a confusing farrago of ideas all based on a profound misreading of the nature of life in general and humanity in particular. … Read on…
Editor’s note: The subject of this essay, Anthony Flew, is an 84-year old retired philosopher, living in Reading, England. He famously argued against C.S. Lewis’ Christian apologetics and later declared in The Presumption of Atheism that without evidence for God, atheism is the appropriate stance. He has lately indicated, however, that he is more inclined toward deism, and has even endorsed a petition for the teaching of Intelligent Design in the British science curriculum. On November 4, 2007, Flew was … Read on…
An Interview With Jason Torpy President, Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers Jason enlisted in the Army in 1994 as an Intelligence Interceptor. After earning top graduate honors from two intelligence training programs, Jason was offered direct admission to the United States Military Academy. Upon graduation, Jason was commissioned and served for five years in Germany, Kuwait, and Iraq with the Army’s 1st Armored Division. Jason left the service in 2005 at the rank of Captain.
Regular contributor of poetry Harvey Madison had an opportunity to be up close and personal at a Space Shuttle Launch. Harvey was kind enough to share those with us and some of them are presented below. You can find more (and larger) photos on Harvey’s web site. You can click on the images below to see a larger version of the photos. Harvey had press credentials (and a lot of talent) and was thus able to get close enough to … Read on…