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Comment by Brian Magee on August 16, 2012 at 3:06pm

Listen to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s speech after receiving the 1991 Humanist Arts Award from the American Humanist Association.

http://www.americanhumanist.org/HNN/details/2012-08-from-the-aha-ar...

Comment by Brian Magee on August 15, 2012 at 1:11pm

Humanist Press author of Hope in Small Doses Nikki Stern is a guest on the most recent Skepticality, the official podcast of The Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine.

Information on the book is available at www.hopeinsmalldoses.com

Comment by Brian Magee on August 14, 2012 at 3:53pm

From the book Consilience by E.O. Wilson, AHA's 1999 Humanist of the Year.

Comment by Brian Magee on August 13, 2012 at 2:05pm

This is our latest Facebook cover image. Feel free to steal!

 

Comment by Brian Magee on August 9, 2012 at 2:26pm

This was sent to us my Mike Mangan who said he had to use a "1" instead of an "I" because it was taken. So, there are at least two humanist plates in Virginia!

Comment by Brian Magee on August 8, 2012 at 11:03am

Only a minor portion of the secular movement adding their signatures to a White House petition would force a response from the Obama administration in the case of an Indonesian man, Alexander Aan, locked up for doubting the existence of a god.

Please sign and share.

Comment by Brian Magee on August 2, 2012 at 2:09pm

In this month’s Humanist Hour podcast, Jes and Todd interview the Young Turks main host and co-founder Cenk Uygur about the relationship between humanism, the media, and politics. Cenk was awarded with the Humanist Media Award at the AHA’s 71st Annual Conference this past June.

You can also catch it on YouTube, Vimeo, or iTunes

RSS feed for the podcast: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HNN_Podcast

Comment by Brian Magee on August 1, 2012 at 10:12am

Remembering Gore Vidal: A Masterful Humanist Voice

American Humanist Association honorary president forced us to look at our prejudices

For Immediate Release

 

Contact: Brian Magee, 202-238-9088 ex 105, bmagee@americanhumanist.org

(Washington, DC - Aug. 1, 2012) - The death of Gore Vidal on July 31, 2012 at the age of 86 has humanists mourning the loss of perhaps American’s best known public intellectual. As honorary president of the American Humanist Association since 2009, Vidal added an enthusiastic, progressive and dynamic voice to the AHA and the humanist movement.

“The progressive and humanist values Gore Vidal repeatedly espoused moved the culture in a positive direction,” said David Niose, president of the American Humanist Association. “He spent his life pointing out the places in society that needed the most attention without worrying who might be embarrassed or upset by his opinions.”

He’s been called an iconoclast, a provocateur, and a misanthrope,” said Humanist magazine editor Jennifer Bardi. “And of course Gore occasionally said things that gave humanists pause. But he was forever dedicated to the cause of enlightenment and exposed injustice and hypocrisy at every turn."

Vidal succeeded Kurt Vonnegut as the AHA’s honorary president, saying he would be “most honored to succeed my old friend as honorary president of the Association: Although he himself is hardly easy to replace, I will do my best to fill the great gap.” A seven-part video interview featuring Vidal can be seen here.

To read the rest of this press release, click here.

Comment by Brian Magee on July 31, 2012 at 1:50pm

Luis Granados Delivers Damned Good Company: Twenty Rebels Who Bucked the God Experts

Latest Humanist Press Ebook Includes Online Reader Commentary, Linked Videos

For immediate release

Contact:
Humanist Press: Brian Magee, 202-238-9088 ex. 105, Mobile: (202) 681-2425 bmagee@americanhumanist.org
Luis Granados, Author: luis@luisgranados.com

(Washington, DC – July 31, 2012) – The power that comes from religious authority has been at the center of all human societies from time immemorial–but those claims of sovereignty have been disputed for just as long. In Damned Good Company: Twenty Rebels Who Bucked the God Experts, author Luis Granados explores twenty cases, from Socrates to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, of brave challenges against those claiming a special authority from God.

Damned Good Companyis a book about people, not about God. People who have preached about God, taken money for sharing what they say they know about God, and ordered others about to enforce what they claim to be God’s will–and a small band of heroes who stood up to them.

In short, Damned Good Company is a Profiles in Courage for humanists.

Some of the twenty heroes of Damned Good Company are well-known: Erasmus, Voltaire, Thomas Paine, Clarence Darrow, Atatürk, Nehru, Steve Biko. Others are not: people like Han Yü, banished from the 9^thcentury Chinese court for questioning the worship of the Buddha’s finger, and Lucy Harris, who came within an inch of deflating Mormonism before it got off the ground.

Each hero is contrasted with a villain of his or her time and place: either a God expert like Martin Luther or Joseph Smith or a cynical politician like Mussolini, who never believed in God but exploited religion shamelessly to advance his political ambition.

The stories in Damned Good Companywill inspire those today who want to stand up to the Christian Right, the Muslim fanatics, the oppressiveness of Catholic and Jewish orthodoxy, the rising Hindu Taliban, and everyone else who claims a God-given right to tell the rest of us what to do.

This enhanced ebook has been extensively researched, with over 1,100 footnotes. It takes full advantage of state-of-the-art features with over 100 photographs, online reader comments, linked videos, and hundreds of useful web links.

Damned Good Companyis available from www.HumanistPress.comand all major online ebook retailers.

A chapter excerpt can be found here: http://wdn.ipublishcentral.net/american_humanist_association/viewin...

Brief video summaries of each chapter can be found here: https://vimeo.com/album/2002877

A book launch party will take place on Sept. 20, 2012, 7-9 pm, at The Hill Center, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20003.

Comment by Brian Magee on July 26, 2012 at 4:39pm

The American Humanist Association is one of 42 groups to have signed the below Interfaith Alliance letter asking five members of Congress to stop their anti-Muslim bigotry. The press release can be found here.


July 26, 2012

The Honorable Michele Bachmann
103 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

The Honorable Louie Gohmert
2440 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

The Honorable Lynn Westmoreland
2433 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

The Honorable Trent Franks
2435 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

The Honorable Thomas Rooney
1529 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

Dear Rep. Bachman, Rep. Franks, Rep. Gohmert, Rep. Rooney and Rep. Westmoreland:

The 42 undersigned religious, secular, interfaith, advocacy, legal and community organizations are united by our work to protect religious freedom for all. As such, we write to raise our voices in protest of your recent letters regarding prominent American Muslim individuals and organizations. These letters question the loyalty of faithful Americans based on nothing more than their religious affiliations and what is at best tenuous evidence of their associations. As such, your actions have serious implications for religious freedom and the health of our democracy.

You can read the rest of the letter here.

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