Month: January 2023

Sam has heard some awful things from his mom, things that made me wince when he told me. His mother seems to have morphed from his emotional pillar into a…

This is part of The Humanist’s monthly series highlighting openly nonreligious elected officials across the nation. Because of the work of the Center for Freethought Equality, the political and advocacy…

The first two verses in Genesis are problematic to translate on their own. But translations are dependent on the context. The first verses of Genesis 1 are usually translated like…

An anonymous Medieval poet wrote this: A moth ate words. It seemed to me a strange occasion, when I inquired about that wonder, that the worm swallowed the riddle of…

Misled by supposed certainties about god   The title of this article comes from one of my favorite Carl Sagan quotes. He was often asked, when he was giving lectures, if…

This is the third in a series of articles this month about alcohol and addiction that are part of the American Humanist Association’s Dry January Challenge. New Year’s resolutions have…

The latest from Cagle Cartoons.     America’s Gun Problem Solution by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com   The post The Comics Section: Connect the Dots appeared first on TheHumanist.com.   …

I submitted a paper to a Christian philosophical journal (to be announced later) on the problem of horrendous suffering. It was accepted. Here was the initial response I received: Read…

Edited by Zahed Sultan, Dhruva Balram and Tara Joshi, “Haramacy” is a play on the Arabic word “haram”, meaning forbidden or indecent, and the English “pharmacy”.    Read More  New Humanist Articles…

From 14th-century Italy to modern day Twitter, the use of the exclamation mark has long been controversial    Read More  New Humanist Articles and Posts