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Category: Living Without Religion

Living Without Religion
To Be or Not to Be
Free Inquiry Volume 39, No. 5
August / September 2019
Jeremiah Bartlett

As everyone knows, human life—and, in most cases, life of any kind—begins when a single egg is fertilized by a single sperm, thus setting in motion a process of gestation and growth that leads in time to the emergence of what we know as life in some form or other. Until that instant, that particular …

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Living Without Religion
Grave Considerations
Free Inquiry Volume 38, No. 4
June / July 2018
Allen H. Agnitti

The afterlife is comforting but a myth; those who know the truth learn to make do with less ambitious consolations.

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Living Without Religion
What’s Wrong with Preaching to the Choir?
Free Inquiry Volume 36, No. 5
August / September 2016
George Williamson

In secular groups, activities derided as “preaching to the choir” actually serve valuable purposes.

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Living Without Religion
Sympathy for the Devil-Believers
Free Inquiry Volume 36, No. 2
February / March 2016
Stephanie Savage

“‘How can you be moral without God?’ my companion asked me in all earnestness. I’ve often thought I should’ve answered, ‘You know, you’re right,’ and stabbed his hand with my fork.”

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Living Without Religion
When We Die
Free Inquiry Volume 35, No. 2
February / March 2015
James Davenport

The delights of this life are not perfect and far from perfectly distributed; but since they’re all the heaven we get, let’s appreciate them deeply.

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Living Without Religion
Mass Shootings and Theodicy
Free Inquiry Volume 33, No. 5
August / September 2013

We will not easily recover from the tragedies in Aurora, Colorado, and Newtown, Connecticut. These tragedies successively became the worst mass shootings in American history. My sympathies go out to the survivors, and I urge support for them, especially from the secular humanist community. When any tragedy occurs by the hand of a human person, …

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Living Without Religion
Atheism: The Last Closet
Free Inquiry Volume 33, No. 2
February / March 2013
Jane Roberts

On May 13, 2012, Mother’s Day, I happened to glance at a paid obituary in the Redlands (California) Daily Facts for Mary Russo McCormick, born in 1934 and died on May 6, 2012. She had penned it herself. It read, in part, “Mary did not have a courageous battle with anything and did not pass …

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Living Without Religion
Why I Am Not a Jehovah’s Witness
Free Inquiry Volume 32, No. 6
October / November 2012
James Zimmerman

I was genetically designed to be a Jehovah’s Witness. I say that because, unlike so many others, I did not join the religion at the behest of a smiling face knocking at my door one morning but rather because my parents were Jeho­vah’s Witnesses. And they were both Jehovah’s Witnesses because their parents were Witnesses. …

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Living Without Religion
Is There a Place for Environmentalism in Humanism?
Free Inquiry Volume 31, No. 3
April / May 2011
John Shook

There is no escaping the accusation anymore: humanism, we hear over and over, can’t help the environmental movement. Sure, humanists can say that they love the environment, want to “go green,” and treasure their animal friends. Humanists can even script such devotion into their declarations and manifestos. Yet environmentalists frequently doubt that humanism can form …

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Living Without Religion
Why Most People Believe in the Supernatural
Free Inquiry Volume 31, No. 1
December 2010 / January 2011
Stephen Uhl

In September 2005, Rita, a huge Category 5 hurricane, was bearing down on Texas’s Gulf shores. The desperately frightened Texas governor ordered over a million people to make their exodus inland. After issuing historically dire warnings to these anxious citizens, the good governor told them to “say a prayer for Texas.” One of our oldest …

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Living Without Religion
Decomposing Humanism
Free Inquiry Volume 30, No. 6
October / November 2010
Austin Dacey

Meet the latest critics of the New Atheists: the old humanists. It is not enough, they say, to take a stand against religionwe must stand up something in its place. Humanists are right to think that there is more to life than denying God but wrong to think that they are the ones to provide …

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Living Without Religion
Diplomats and Rabble-Rousers
Free Inquiry Volume 30, No. 4
June / July 2010
Adam Lee

As so-called New Atheists grow in numbers and prominence, led by such outspoken nonbelievers as Richard Dawkins, we have to expect some squalling from religious groups that are feeling the unaccustomed sting of criticism. That much is unsurprising, but criticism of the New Atheists has come from some unexpected quarters as well. Julian Baggini, a …

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Living Without Religion
The Regrettable Return of ‘Nonsectarianism’
Free Inquiry Volume 30, No. 2
February / March 2010
Stuart Whatley

  Endorsement [of religion] sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying messa ge to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community. —Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Lynch v. Donnelly (1984) At the close of his second term, during a special …

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Living Without Religion
Caveat Emptor: The atheist as consumer advocate
Free Inquiry Volume 30, No. 1
December 2009 / January 2010
S.C. Hitchcock

Atheists agree on one point and one point only: there is no God. So-called new atheists can be said to agree on two points: (1) There is no God; and (2) We need to do a better job of getting this message into the mainstream. So far, the most popular approach, one advocated by Richard …

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Living Without Religion
This Is It: Confessions of a Skeptic
Free Inquiry Volume 29, No. 6
October / November 2009
Will Cooper

The whole thing is unbelievable. You know what I mean—God. So why on Earth when I got cancer at age fifty did I quietly slip back into believing it? I developed a hunger for “somethi ng more,” a palpable conviction that the material universe isn’t all there is. I wanted to believe that there was …

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Living Without Religion
Atheist Bus Ads Turn Heads in Canada and Worldwide
Free Inquiry Volume 29, No. 5
August / September 2009
Justin Trottier

The atheist ad campaign on public-transit buses in Canada was launched to raise much-needed discussion. It may have accomplished that goal even before the first ad-bearing bus left its depot on February 15, 2009. The campaign’s slogan was: “There’s probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” After over $45,000 was raised by …

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Living Without Religion
Humanism, Meaning, and Wonder
Free Inquiry Volume 28, No. 6
October / November 2008
Lawrence Rifkin

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder,” Sherwin Wine wrote. With its rudder and sails working synergistically, this essay will explore an understanding of human meanings in the context of a naturalistic worldview. Human meanings, understood in a humanist framework, provide alternatives to supernatural narratives on one side and a sense …

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Living Without Religion
I Want (Not) to Believe
Free Inquiry Volume 28, No. 5
August / September 2008
Katrina Voss

Notwithstanding the online music video “Iraq: The Musical,” we may be a very long way from “Iraq On Ice.” A very long way, considering that even theatrical endeavors like movies with the theme “Iraq: You Were Right When You Said It Was a Bad Idea” do not seem to be working. An “I told you …

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Living Without Religion
Reassuringly Rational: An Atheist Response to Fear
Free Inquiry Volume 28, No. 1
December 2007 / January 2008
Paula Kirby

Like a particularly persistent bluebottle fly, one question has been buzzing round my head these last few weeks: why do atheists and theists seem incapable of communicating with one another? Time and again, we rationalists believe that our position has been expressed clearly and cannot possibly be misunderstood, yet, time and again, we find that …

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Living Without Religion
The Godless Freshman
Free Inquiry Volume 27, No. 5
August / September 2007
Allen B. Downey

Living Without Religion
In Defense of Radicalism
Free Inquiry Volume 27, No. 4
June / July 2007
Norm R. Allen Jr.
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Living Without Religion
The Secular Stigma
Free Inquiry Volume 27, No. 1
December 2006 / January 2007
Colin Koproske
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Living Without Religion
The Book of Job and J.B.: Faith and Reason
Free Inquiry Volume 26, No. 4
June / July 2006
Gary Sloan
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Living Without Religion
Atheists in Cyberspace
Free Inquiry Volume 26, No. 1
December 2005 / January 2006
Keith Taylor
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Living Without Religion
Pascal’s Wager: Not a Good Bet
Free Inquiry Volume 25, No. 1
December 2004 / January 2005
Richard Hull
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Living Without Religion
Why No One Ever Dies
Free Inquiry Volume 24, No. 5
August / September 2004
Don Lowry

Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing is certain—This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. — The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayam of Naishapur My father and mother had been married for over fifty years, and when her life …


Living Without Religion
The Pursuit of Happiness
Free Inquiry Volume 24, No. 4
June / July 2004
Lili Artel
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Living Without Religion
The Silver Bullet Question that Kills the Immortal Soul
Free Inquiry Volume 24, No. 3
April / May 2004
James H. Dee

Humans have believed for thou­sands of years in the immortal­ity of a personal soul. People in preliterate societies and those in societ­ies with highly articulate philosophers have cherished and defended the idea. Skeptics down the centuries have been a decided minority, with little that could serve as an effective counterargument until the sudden explosion of …

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Living Without Religion
On the Death of an Atheist
Free Inquiry Volume 24, No. 1
December 2003 / January 2004
Jerry Kurlandski
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Living Without Religion
No Dog Tags for Atheists
Free Inquiry Volume 22, No. 1
Winter 2001 / 2002
Daniel O'Neal

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