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By David Gibson - Politics DailyFor decades, and long before the recent arrival of ballyhooed and bully "New Atheists" like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, Paul Kurtz and the secular humanist movement that he birthed in the 1970s represented the gravitational center of unbelief in America. While atheist leaders like the late Madalyn Murray O'Hair ("Mad, Mad, Madalyn") grabbed headlines with her court battles against prayer in schools -- and almost any other fight she could pick -- Kurtz, a retired University of Buffalo philosophy professor with a scholar's bearing and 50 books to his name, was developing a ...
So This is Blasphemy? I'll be Darned
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe Center for Inquiry (CFI), one of the leading organizations promoting secular humanism, stirred the pot a bit last September when it announced a "Blasphemy Contest" on the occasion of the first annual Blasphemy Day, on Sept. 30. Entrants were challenged "to create a phrase, poem, or statement that [is] considered blasphemous" in 20 words or less. "Blasphemy" is defined on the site as "the act of denying or scoffing at God or God's alleged attributes." The contest drew 1,000 entries from 650 participants and, as we reported, it drew fire from within the atheist community, including withering ...
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