WHITE House officials yesterday met with leaders of the atheist community to discuss their concerns about privileges given to religious groups by the government.
According to the Secular Coalition of America, the meeting was:
The first time in history that a presidential administration has met for a policy briefing with the American non-theist community.
The issues addressed, [...]
Welcome to the final part of PETER BRIETBART’S interview with Professor A C GRAYLING. Here we ask what Eutopia might look like, what lies in store for the future of humanity, where the best philosophy is to be found and whether the right to die should be a legal right.
PB: In your view, and, [...]
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Welcome to Part 3 of the Freethinker/Grayling interview. Here, we ask him why religion has stuck around so long, if we could ever be free of superstition, why humanism is good for the world, and if free will could really exist in a purely physical world.
PB: Daniel Dennett talks about it in terms of [...]
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The Southall Black Sisters have been awarded the National Secular Society’s £5,000 Michael Irwin Prize for Secularist of the Year. The award was presented to Pragna Patel, Chair of the organisation, at prestigious award ceremony in central London yesterday.
NSS President Terry Sanderson said:
Southall Black Sisters was set up to meet the needs of Black and [...]
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WE have just been informed by Leo Igwe, Executive Director of the Nigerian Humanist Movement, that the lunatic head of the Liberty Gospel Church, Helen Ukpabio, failed for the second time to appear in the Federal High Court in Calabar to press a lawsuit she initiated against him and a number of others – and the case [...]
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