Facebook vs. Freethought
A peculiar side effect of becoming known for voicing controversial views is that you become the recipient of the private confessions of others. As a loud critic of Islam, I am in the unique position...
View ArticleFreethought’s History Mustn’t Be Forgotten
“Explore forgotten history.” That’s been the motto of the Freethought Trail—the Council for Secular Humanism’s celebration of radical reform history in west-central New York State—since its 2005...
View ArticleThe Four Horsemen of Apologetics
“No I’m not an expert in ‘theology.’ There’s nothing in ‘theology’ to be expert about. Anyway I’m busy revising for my degree in fairyology.” —Richard Dawkins Most r ationalists, I am sure, feel just...
View ArticleSeparation of Church and State: Ranking the Presidents
The founders had every opportunity to create religious creeds, mottos, and pledges, but they didn’t. In fact, they explicitly added the Establishment Clause to the U.S. Constitution to prevent the...
View ArticleMyth Became Fact
Craig Williams was a tireless and highly successful Christian apologist. He was the superstar on the staff of Campus Christian Crusade. His numerous debates against atheists and skeptics had fortified...
View ArticleThe God of the Holocene Epoch Is Dead: Religion’s Fatal Flaw
The “world religions” suffer from their provenance. They are, one and all, children of the naively hopeful Holocene Epoch. Our species was born around 200,000 years ago, right at the end of the...
View Article‘Radically’ Redesigned: Re-Experience the Freethought Trail
New for 2018, the website of the Freethought Trail has undergone a major overhaul and redesign. The Council for Secular Humanism’s celebration of radical-reform activism in west-central New York State...
View ArticleFreethought and Fury
A fiery speaker is calling out Christianity’s “immense persecutions, tyranny, and oppression,” when suddenly two cops break into the convention and arrest three people. It’s 1878 in Watkins (now...
View ArticleIngersoll, the Premature Feminist
In 1890, Robert Green Ingersoll wrote a powerful essay in which he denounced the neglect and oppression of women workers by both their emerging unions and their bosses. Economic justice, he insisted,...
View ArticleAppreciating the Unknown Ingersoll
In my editorial in this issue, I contend that agnostic orator Robert Green Ingersoll was all but stricken from history thanks to conservative Christians who used their influence to “disappear” him,...
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