Apocalypse . . . When?

The evidence is in: Terrorism does not pose an existential threat to our civilization.

There have never been so many ways civilization could fall–or so many with the power and the willingness to push.

Probabilistic doomsday predictions shortchange the proven power of humans to keep the worst from happening.

No guarantees, but there is good reason to fear that terrorism could become an existential threat.

Beginning around 1970, humanist social-justice activism began building fewer independent organizations, instead creating stronger humanist organizations.

It is likely that Jesus was an entirely “mythical” figure that was later historicized, not a mundane historical figure who was later mythicized.

“The purpose of the current
study is to replicate Durkheim’s analysis, utilizing the fifty U.S.
tates and Washington, D.C., a the units of analysis.”

Hospital and nursing-home clergy treated this nonbeliever with serial disrespect.

An author responds to a critical review in these pages.

The editor responds to an author’s criticisms.

The memory of Robert Green Ingersoll is being preserved on many fronts.

“Humans are not
so constituted as to be able to function in
 world of pure rtionality.”

Words such as tragic are inadequate to describe premeditated acts of murder motivated by religious or political fanaticism.

Fox News is fact-free. Yet some of its critiques—only some—cannot be dismissed.

Ritual and tradition: Are they supporting ribs for our lives, or more like prison bars? Sometimes the answer is unclear.

The idea of Hell encapsulates much that is contradictory and perverse in Christianity.

Letters in response to Free Inquiry volume 36, issue 5.

Despite broad research, a new book makes a dubious effort to exonerate Pope Pius XII’s record in World War II.

“For pure, unadulterated, We-Are-Atheists-Hear-Us-Roar unity and
pride, there was one beginning and one place to be: Thursday evenings at Baron d’Holbach’s joint.”

In every way the reality of man negates the goodness of God.

Pop culture surrendered to despair because it is easier to embrace our doom than to do something about it.

“Problems and questions keep mounting. Why in the [Grand Canyon] is there no mixing of land and marine animals as should have occurred in the turbulence of a massive flood?”

Poem: For years before he died, grandfather kept / stacked in his basement, every can, every / lidless jar and pastry tray that came / his way