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What if the Gospels had been written by men who had actually seen Jesus and others perform his miracles, and repeated them themselves? The author looks to ancient China and the Daoist alchemists in a comparative analysis of miracle workers like Jesus.

An atheist reflects on his views with a grab bag of lymericks and short verse.

Minnesota's own intrepid secular humanist, Rod Sheffer had a letter to the editor published in the Brainerd Daily Dispatch, defending secular humanism.  On June 17, a reader from Deerwood, MN, responded with some outrageous attacks on secular humanism, including the charge that it sponsors or sanctions genocide. Sally Morem, President of the Humanists of Minnesota, wrote this reply.

A key component of President George W. Bush's "faith-based initiative" cleared the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday, and the plan is now headed for a vote in the full House, despite its serious church-state flaws.

If you could do something to bring about World Peace, wouldn’t you want to try?

Both men, Jefferson and Adams, had total contempt for the Christian church and Christianity in general. I have often wondered why no teacher has the guts to teach these facts in our public schools?

Is life pointless? Why should the atheist bother? It's all just going to end anyway, right? Answers enclosed.

Some irrational beliefs in several different religions are discussed, specific examples of such irrationalism are given, and a plea is made for considering conventional beliefs rationally.

A short fiction story about a student's attempt to begin a freethought club on his high school campus.

How can Christians continue to ignore the anti-Semitism inherent in their fundamental doctrine?

A parable for those of you whose godless view of life is much more than a body of abstract ideas.

As a rebuttal to Glen Miller's apologetic piece that appears on the Christian Thinktank website, Tim Simmons delves deeply into the biblical story of Jehu and the killings at Jezreel to show that indeed there is a contradiction to be found between 2nd Kings 10:30 and Hoseah 1:4. A fascinating read.

David Payne takes us to the Middle East for a weekend of mystery, intrigue and sinkholes and Uzis - with the Clash's "Rock the Casaba" playing in the background. With a pulpish flavor a la Jim Thompson we learn a great deal about the origin and evolution of humankind.

The conversation that day with Douglas covered almost the entire range of thought about horses ... trees ... grass ... mountains ... law ... philosophy ... religion ... Learned Hand ... Brandeis ... Holmes ... bourbon ... scotch ... marriage ... divorce ... his father (a Presbyterian minister who died very young) ... his living in a tent while graduating with honors at Whitman college ... his passion for animals and the land ... conservation....

Philip Paulson dispels the old cliche that there are no atheists in foxholes by recounting his experiences in the military. (Note: This piece was written in 1989 and first appeared in The Humanist magazine.)

The author explores an important issue that continues to be a topic of hot debate. How much power should religion have over the life and death of a child and where must we draw the line?

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Religions are based on emotional needs, and most religions fulfill the great tribal need to belong to something larger and more powerful than ourselves. With the sole exception of pure science, objective truth will usually be sacrificed in favor of personal and tribal emotional needs.

The insidious and seductive cliche that seems to saturate the wimpish mind is that you should not be critical of another person's religious beliefs. They all deserve respect, no matter how ignorant ... how bigoted ... how ugly ... how false ... how cruel ... how superstitious ... they all deserve "respect".

When asked "what am I?" I always answer by saying I think of myself as being within the historical stream of mysticism, where there is no violence, no dualism and no absolutes.

John Paul does not have enough days left in his life to say "For my part ... I am sorry" to all of the millions and millions of human beings slaughtered by the Christian church ... to all new discoveries of truth ... slaughtered by the church ... or to a legacy that has promoted sexism ... racism ... the desecration of the natural environment and the intolerance of other world spiritual traditions from Buddhism to the American Indian.

Using passages from the Bible, Neal Matson shows that just about any commandment can be gleaned from the Good Book - both ideas of great worth and ideas that are outdated and no longer applicable to humankind. As with many of the ideas printed in the pages of books throughout history, humans have provided much food for thought.

"Dividing the people on racial lines through dubious pseudo-scientific theories has always been a ploy of the Church not only in India but also in different parts of the world." Indian scholar Aravindan Neelakandan.S., studying missionary strategy and conversion tactics, explores the "theory" of Aryan race and their invasion of ancient India.