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The Religion With No Name
By Brian C. Muraresku
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Secular Humanism Defined - Council for Secular Humanism
Unlike religious humanism, secular humanism eschews transcendentalism in any and all forms. Depending on the context, transcendentalism can mean outright mysticism, the “spiritual” (itself a term with many meanings), or simply a rush toward emotional closure disproportionate to the knowable data.
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The Most Efficient Way to Save a Life
Inspired to make a meaningful donation, I wondered: What is the best charitable cause in the world, and was it crazy to think that math and logic could help me find it?
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Science Is Not Your Enemy
The term “scientism” is anything but clear, more of a boo-word than a label for any coherent doctrine. Sometimes it is equated with lunatic positions, such as that “science is all that matters” or that “scientists should be entrusted to solve all problems.”
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The Attack on Truth
We are entering an age of willful ignorance. By Lee McIntyre.
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Dehumanisation is a human universal
You don’t have to be a monster or a madman to dehumanise others. You just have to be an ordinary human being. By David Livingstone Smith. (2014)
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Why we need Arnold Toynbee’s good life
As the dreams of Silicon Valley fill our world, could the dowdy historian Arnold Toynbee help prevent a nightmare? By Ian Beacock.
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70,000 Years of Human History in 400 Pages
Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens and the rise of Deep History. By Michael Saler.
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Top Five Crazy Statements from the 114th Congress
The US Congress is many things to many people—an austere lawmaking institution, a dysfunctional madhouse, even a testing ground for the latest buzzword or political acronym. But for others, the House of Representatives and the Senate serve as endless sources of ridiculous, laughable statements, especially when it comes to some off-the-wall remarks made by religious […]
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Prayer, Bible distribution stopped in Mississippi school after Humanist group lawsuit
Rankin County School District is no longer able to hold prayer during school assemblies or distribute Bibles, following a U.S. District Court decision to grant a motion for contempt against the school district.
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Transhumanism – The Final Religion?
After several decades of relative obscurity Transhumanism as a philosophical and technological movement has finally begun to break out of its strange intellectual ghetto and make small inroads into the wider public consciousness. This is partly because some high profile people have either adopted it as their worldview or alternatively warned against its potential dangers... By Dirk Bruere.
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Are Nonbelievers More Imaginative? A New Study Suggests They Might Be
We humanists pride ourselves on being rational. This focus on reason seems especially prominent amongst humanists who were previously entrenched in religious communities. In defiance of their religious upbringings, they espouse a worldview based on scientific evidence, sound logic, and critical thinking. But what if their imaginations, not their rationality, led them to leave religion? […]
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Einstein’s Morality
Ching-Hung Woo looks at the many facets of Albert Einstein’s approach to ethics.
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Is the feeling that we’re immortal innate?
We have this powerful sense that death is a transition, not an end. Why can’t we imagine a world without us? By Natalie Emmons.
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The Bully’s Pulpit
On the elementary structure of domination. By David Graeber.
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‘We Are Creatures That Should Not Exist’
The Theory of Anti-Natalism. By David Benatar.
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Wakhan, An Other Afghanistan
Journeying through a remote region of northeastern Afghanistan, untouched by the war and preserved from the Taliban regime, this story pays tribute to the ancient culture of this land, which has never disappeared but which has simply been forgotten. By Varial Cédric Houin.
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Be careful, your love of science looks a lot like religion
Scientific beliefs can be as reassuring as religious extremism—but should they be? By Jamie Holmes.
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Neal Stephenson’s Ideal Forms
Neal Stephenson has been publishing important novels every few years (like clockwork – appropriate, given his use of clock imagery) for over 20 years. In 1992, he wrote Snow Crash, one of the two great cyberpunk novels, before he helped bury the genre with The Diamond Age, which won a Hugo award in 1995. He has written seven novels since then... By Peter Berard.
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Read the Lost Dream Journal of the Man Who Discovered Neurons
An exclusive look at the dreams Santiago Ramon y Cajal recorded to prove Freud was wrong. By Ben Erlich.
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