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The other day the head muckety-mucks of Saudi Arabia, a clique of oil-rich Bedouin barbarians (think bloodthirsty Beverly Hillbillies) have decided it’s not enough to stone women who do not obediently hide their charms (and everything else) inside black garbage…
Secular Global Institute Fellow Phil Zuckerman recently announced the upcoming release of a new book, Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions. Described as a guidebook for living a life without religion, combining sociological insight and personal inspiration, here is…
Secular Global Institute Fellow Patrik Lindenfors has recently released a new version of his atheist children's book, God Probably Doesn't Exist - for the first time, the book has been translated to English. From the book's official description: Have you…
Creationist Ken Ham has strict rules on hiring employees, but it won't stop him from taking a large tax break from the citizens of Kentucky, many of whom would be barred employment from the project receiving the tax break. Prospective…
Submitted by Secular Global Institute Communicator Jim Downard (concept, chronology) in partnership with Thomas Brown (visual execution), a past president of the Spokane Secular Society, see the history of the universe in a new way with this detailed Map of Time: The…
On July 7, 2014, the Taliban in Afghanistan issued a statement that accused mobile polio vaccination teams of "spying", causing many providers of these life-saving treatments to back out of the region, one of the last hotbeds of polio infections…
When Secular Global Institute Communicator Jim Downard was asked what would be the most important thing to be said to others around the world about atheism or secularism, he responded with what he calls a comprehensive manifesto: a Global Secular Bill of…
Politicking from the Pulpit: An Analysis of the IRS’S Current Section 501(c)(3) Enforcement Efforts and How it is Costing America is a recent paper that tackles the issue of non-profit organizations funding and backing political candidates. According to the IRS, "Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited…
Mike Fair, a state senator from South Carolina, has made his latest bid to put creationism in the lesson plans of the state's public schools. This past February, he successfully blocked the state education oversight committee from using the term…
Kidnapped for Christ is a 2014 documentary that tells the story of several teens and their experiences at a religious behavior modification school for "troubled" youth in the Dominican Republic. Methods at this "school" included forced labor, extreme isolation, and other forms…
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