Internet Infidels: About Us

About Us

Welcome!

The Secular Web is owned and operated by the Internet Infidels, Inc., a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to defending and promoting a naturalistic worldview on the Internet. In the words, of Paul Draper, naturalism "is the hypothesis that the physical universe is a 'closed system' in the sense that nothing that is neither a part nor a product of it can affect it. So naturalism entails the nonexistence of all supernatural beings, including the theistic God."

We have full recognition as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization, making all donations to the Internet Infidels fully tax deductible. Our stated mission is to defend and promote a naturalistic worldview on the Internet. To that end we publish the very best secular essays, papers, articles and reviews.

In addition, we want to uphold the dignity of humanity, and to encourage the avid pursuit of philosophy and the scientific enterprise. We also stand as a bulwark against the forces of superstition, especially the radical religious right, whose proponents would have us fear knowledge rather than embrace it.

With thousands of articles and as many as 600,000 unique visitors per month, the Secular Web is the largest and most heavily visited nontheistic website on the Internet. We were ranked among the "Best of the Web" by PC Magazine in their 2004 Best of the Internet book by Don Wilmott.

Despite the sheer quantity of published articles on the Secular Web, we make a sincere effort to publish only the best. For that reason, all articles submitted for publication in the Modern Library must successfully pass peer-review in order to be accepted for publication; similarly, all articles submitted for publication in the Kiosk must successfully pass review by the Kiosk Editorial Review Committee in order to be accepted for publication. In addition, many of the contemporary writers and supporters who have published on the Secular Web are distinguished scholars in their own discipline. If you are a writer or scholar, we very much want to publish your work on the Secular Web. See our Submission Guidelines and our Call for Papers for more information. If you think you might be interested in volunteering your time in some way to help us with our efforts, please e-mail us. See the Contact Information page.

Although the Internet Infidels publishes from a nontheistic viewpoint, we also publish rebuttals of our material in order to assist our readers in their search for truth. We also maintain a Feedback Forum where we publish feedback we receive from readers, along with our responses.

The Secular Web is the definitive resource for online atheists, humanists, agnostics and freethinkers. We've grown tremendously over the last five years as more and more people have come to see that naturalism is a worldview that makes sense.

RealAudio Our Philosophy: In this interview, Richard Carrier describes in plain language what naturalism (specifically metaphysical naturalism) is, our general philosophy, as well as our goals and vision for the nonbelieving community in the 21st century!