Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
Diversity initiatives in higher education, with the intent to foster harmony and understanding of others, seemed to have undermined some of the primary goals of higher education: leading students to critically self-reflect and hold justified true beliefs. Some diversity initiatives have reinforced the very harmful idea that disagreement is disrespectful and have also assented to […]
(Image from Citizen’s Voice article) For those who are not from Northeastern Pennsylvania — or otherwise do not know — a 14-year-old boy named Tyler Winstead was recently shot and killed while walking home from playing basketball at a Christian Youth Center by an assailant who is still at large and unknown. Local media has described Winstead as a […]
The eighth episode of the NEPA Freethought Society Podcast featuring an interview with special guest humanist author and speaker Jen Hancock. Stream/download here, listen/download on iTunes here, and subscribe to our RSS feed. Past episodes are available here. Jen Hancock is the author of “The Humanist Approach to Happiness: Practical Wisdom” and “Jen Hancock’s Handy […]
This wonderful letter to the editor was published in today’s Times Leader. Thanks, Erin, for submitting this. Atheist does not equal ‘bad person’ Religion is one topic on which the people of this world are never going to agree. How the world is today, I find myself standing up for atheists more than I should […]
William Lane Craig — in premise one of his moral argument — argues, “If God does not exist, objective moral values and duties to not exist.” He reasons that morality simply is illusory — and quotes some philosophers who happen to agree — if God does not exist. ” Additionally, Craig argues that absent God, […]
