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April/May 2013

Volume 33, Number 3

Selected articles available online.
Why aren’t all the articles available online?


ARMY OF GOD: America’s Armed Forces vs. Their Nontheists

Introduction
Jason Torpy, Guest Feature Editor

Note from the Editor
Tom Flynn

The State of Our Christian Military (and What to Do About It)
Jason Torpy

The Ravages of Wartime Moral Injuries
Gretchen Brendel Mann

Seeking Reform from Within
Major Raymond Bradley

Freethought Enjoys Smoother Sailing at the Naval Academy
Clifford G. Andrew

Why Chaplains Should Be Contracted, Not Commissioned
Carlos Bertha


Apocalypse Nation
Steven Doloff


EDITORIAL

The Argument from Death and Meaninglessness—Again
Ronald A. Lindsay


REQUEST FOR ESSAYS

On ‘Why I Am Not a . . .’


OP-EDS

Yes, Virginia, There Was a Twentieth Century
Tom Flynn

What Does Religion Provide?
Greta Christina

Should We Abolish Morality?
Russell Blackford

The Decay of American Democracy, Part 2
Shadia B. Drury

The Brain of Ariel Sharon
Arthur Caplan

Domestic Drone Danger Deepens
Nat Hentoff

Here Come the ‘Evatheists’
John Shook

Greece Grapples with Blasphemy
Simon Davis

Existentialism: A Philosophy for Secular Humanists
James A. Haught

Tracing ‘Secular Humanism’
Edd Doerr


LETTERS


DEPARTMENTS

Church-State Update
PBS’s First Freedom
Edd Doerr

Humanism at Large
Answer to Stalin
Michael Paulkovich

Faith and Reason
Twenty Christian Questions
Mark Rubinstein

Response
A Response to Michael Shermer
Ophelia Benson


REVIEWS

The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society by Brad S. Gregory
Reviewed by Brooke Horvath

Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery by Thomas L. Brodie
Reviewed by George A. Wells

The Bible, the School, and the Constitution: The Clash That Shaped Modern Church-State Doctrine by Steven K. Green
Reviewed by Wayne L. Trotta

A Provocative People: A Secular History of the Jews by Sherwin T. Wine
Reviewed by Edd Doerr

In Freedom We Trust by Edward M. Buckner and Michael E. Buckner
Reviewed by Becky Garrison

Realising Secularism: Austraila and New Zealand edited by Max Wallace
Reviewed by Edd Doerr


POEM

by W.F. Lantry

Hinges


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