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Archive > Volume 38

Deconstructing Religion

April / May 2018
Volume 38, No. 3

Deconstructing Religion
Introduction
Tom Flynn

The best path forward for humankind involves consigning as much of our religious heritage as possible to history’s proverbial dustbin.

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Deconstructing Religion
Features of Religions as Cognitive By-Products
Robert N. McCauley

In a quarter century, cognitive science has revolutionized our understanding of religion.

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Deconstructing Religion
The Story of a Creature with Peculiar Habits
Armin W. Geertz

The roots of religious behavior may lie deeper than many cognitive scholars of religion think.

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Deconstructing Religion
Reinvigorating the Comparative, Cooperative Ethnographic Sciences of Religion
Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Joseph Watts

The greatest challenge in advancing the social science of religion may lie in better organizing the social scientists.

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Deconstructing Religion
Atheists: The Puppy Kicking, Chicken ‘Loving,’ Serial Killing Cannibals Next Door?
Sarah R. Schiavone

Prejudice against atheists is real. It’s global. And it’s worse than you think.

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The Meaning and Legacy of Humanism: A Sharp Challenge from a Potential Ally
Yuval Noah Harari and A. P. Norman

Humanist philosopher Andy Norman challenges superstar intellectual Yuval Noah Harari about the meaning of humanism.


Stretching Gods
Tony Pasquarello

Traditional religions and their deities cannot be stretched to accommodate contemporary scientific cosmology.

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Tale of the Trail
Tom Flynn

This year is the silver anniversary of the re-opening of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum by what is now known as the Council for Secular Humanism. (The birthplace of nineteenth-century agnostic orator Robert Green Ingersoll had been restored and opened as a museum twice before—in the 1920s and the 1950s—each time closing after a …

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A Trail for the Heartland
Tom Flynn

New York State has no monopoly on radical reform history.

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Editorial
Women Should Be Mad at Religion Not (Just) Trump
Robyn E. Blumner

Trump is not feminism’s real enemy: that would be the misogyny at Christianity’s core.


Op-Ed
An Unexpected Milestone
Tom Flynn

It’s the Ingersoll Museum’s silver anniversary. Celebration will ensue.


Op-Ed
Rationality and Nuance
Greta Christina

How much nuance is too much? The answer is not a given; it’s up to us where to draw the lines.

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Op-Ed
Just a Semantic Argument? The Free Will Free-for-All
Russell Blackford

Disputes about free will may reflect our fears about fatalism and moral responsibility.

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Op-Ed
Is the GOP Fit for Liberal Democracy?
Shadia B. Drury

Many GOP ideologies are profoundly illiberal or staunchly undemocratic—or both.

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Op-Ed
Let’s Not Split the Difference This Time
Ophelia Benson

Why is it so hard to agree that sexual demands in the workplace are wrong, period?


Op-Ed
What Is Missing from the Conversation about Iraqi Elections and Extremism?
Faisal Saeed Al Mutar

Iraq needs a future beyond the dueling sectarians.

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Op-Ed
The Party of Traitors
S. T. Joshi

How much lower can the GOP’s current incarnation go?

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Obituary
Billy Graham, Longtime Critic of Secular Humanism, Dies at Ninety-Nine

William Franklin Graham Jr., best known to the world simply as Billy Graham, died at his home in Montreat, North Carolina, on February 21, 2018. He was ninety-nine. Graham was perhaps the world’s best known Christian evangelist. He supposedly provided spiritual counseling to every president from Harry Truman to Barack Obama. Graham was a longtime …

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Letters
Letters

Tom Flynn, in his Op-Ed “A Modest Proposal: Get Religion Out of the Charity Sector” in the December 2017/January 2018 issue, says he can’t see how denominational charities can maintain their identities if they steer their fundraising activities far outside of their own communities. Does that mean religious charitable organizations will refuse money from heathens? …

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Doerr's Way
Educators vs. Trump/DeVos
Edd Doerr

Few who know the field support the Trump/DeVos agenda.

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The Faith I Left Behind
An Evolution of Doubt
E. Jeff Justis

Discovering that the universe is unauthored … and that life without a higher meaning is enough.

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Humanism at Large
The Only Real Question
Terry L. Wright

At last we can settle whether God exists—so long as God doesn’t chicken out.

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Reviews
Understanding Ignorance: The Surprising Impact of What We Don’t Know, by Daniel R. DeNicola
Brooke Horvath

Understanding Ignorance: The Surprising Impact of What We Don’t Know, by Daniel R. DeNicola (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2017, ISBN 978-0-262-03644-3) xii + 250 pp. Hardcover, $27.95.   “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance,” observed H. L. Mencken in Notes on Democracy (1926). Gettysburg College Professor of Philosophy Daniel …

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Reviews
Sharing Reality: How to Bring Secularism and Science to an Evolving Religious World
Ronald A. Lindsay

Sharing Reality: How to Bring Secularism and Science to an Evolving Religious World, by Jeff T. Haley and Dale McGowan (Durham, N.C.: Pitchstone Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-1634311267) 151 pp. Paperback, $14.95.   Some atheists embrace missionary work. They maintain we should strive, through peaceful persuasion, to eradicate belief in gods. There are no deities, and …

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Poem
Medicine Ball
George Kalogeris

That brute dull thud of its lumpy leather pelt. An exercise in oblivion’s blunt obtuseness. No wonder you turned around so I could see How you rolled your eyes, still sharp enough to know That this was dementia, and it was time to pass The medicine ball around in a mind- less circle, Wheelchair by …

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