Month: November 2023

What is a professional good human? That has to exist, right? A role where we can study and train and work to be good in effective ways? This question was…

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…

First published in New Humanist in 1971, Philip Larkin’s “This Be The Verse” – with its famous opening line, “They fuck you up, your mum and dad” – has become…

Albany, NY – American Atheists rebuked New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s decision to again veto a life-saving bill that has twice passed in the New York Assembly and Senate with…

Alex Soros has inherited the chairmanship of the Open Society Foundations from his philanthropist father, George Soros. How will he cope with the antisemitic conspiracy theories that surround it?    Read…

A Press Release by our affiliate, the Atheist Foundation of Australia: The NSW government has rejected the nomination of Sydney Atheists President, Steve Marton, to sit on its newly devised…

In 2011 I did a series of posts called “Reality Check: What Must Be the Case if Christianity is True?”  I put some of them in the third chapter in …

Jason Sylvester, host of the AAI Podcast, has a YouTube channel dedicated to the history of religion. Based on writings for a book, in progress, on how the world became…

Quick summary: atheism is easier than religious faith, and people are lazy, so why does anybody bother with the hard option? Why don’t human brains seek a kind of lowest-energy…

In this debate I’m going to focus on the alleged miracle of the virgin birthed incarnate god. Dr. Slade, of the Global Center for Religious Research, will focus on Mary’s…