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Two European Fights For Secular Education
By Fotis Frangopoulos, AAI Secretary/Treasurer; and Jason Sylvester (Diogenes of Mayberry), AAI Blog Manager Ireland In the past decade, Ireland has made incredible strides towards a more secular society. Recently, Irish citizens have voted to legalize gay marriage in 2015, and in 2018 to overturn the abortion ban and remove blasphemy from the law books. In contrast to this trend, Atheist Ireland ...
AAI Advisor, Narendra Nayak, on combating superstition in India
From the president of the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations (FIRA) & AAI advisor, Narendra Nayak: During the nine months from March to December 2020, we did not have much scope for activities. My last workshops before things locked down for covid were on 8th, 12th, and 15th March. Coincidentally in the last week of March, I was down with a fever which I strongly suspected to be tha...
Michael Sherlock – Early Buddhism – God, gods & Other Religions
The belief in an eternal soul was, and remains, antithetical to the aim underscoring Buddha’s ‘Four Noble Truths’, i.e., it perpetuates dukkha by fostering the delusional clinging to, and craving for, that which is in fact impermanent. Early Buddhism – God, gods & Other Religions
Release Zara Kay
Zara Kay, a Tanzanian-born, Australian citizen, founder of Faithless Hijabi and a well-known women’s rights activist, was summoned to the Dar-es-Salaam Oysterbay Police Station on 28 December 2020. After 32 hours of questioning, she was released on bail and is now to return to the police station with her lawyer on 5 January 2021. The charges against her are: 1) Making social media posts critical o...
Michael Sherlock – Christian Misogyny: Female Sexuality in the Primary Historical Sources for Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
Owing thanks largely to the Malleus, female sexuality became the twisted and distorted obsession of early modern European men. It may be cautiously assumed that these men had become so psychologically deranged, so pathologically affected due to their unbridled religious convictions, that they projected their own guilty and sexually repressed desires and dysfunctions onto their disenfranchised fema...
Others Talk About Transparency—We Deliver
Who do you trust enough to give your time or your hard-earned cash to? This is an important question. There are no end of charities who want your money and you can’t support them all. So you have to decide which organizations are doing things you truly support and which of those you trust to spend your money wisely and honestly. Atheist Alliance International places integrity as its first and non-...
AAI Internet Café—Democratic Republic of the Congo
AAI helps humanists in the DRC set up an Internet Café to raise funds and help local people.
Introducing Our Advisory Council
AAI announces the members of its new Advisory Council.
The Story of a Bangladeshi ex-Muslim Writer
Ashanour Rahman Khan is an ex-Muslim from Bangladesh seeking asylum in Sweden. He'll be appearing in an exclusive interview with AAI's John Richards today.
Jason Sylvester – Eastern Philosophical Concepts in Spinoza’s Pantheism & Ethics
Nadler cited the influence of Greek Stoicism on Spinoza’s thoughts, based on his education and books found in his personal library. However, to the reader unfamiliar with the Greeks but with a basic understanding of Eastern philosophies, the Buddhist thought in Spinoza is readily apparent; it practically jumps off the page and begs to be acknowledged. Schopenhauer noted the connection: ‘The banks ...
Secular World – August 2020
In this issue: Editorial President’s Letter How I Changed My Mind About: Faith Non Evidential God In A Snowflake Poetry Page From Data To Belief The Evil God Challenge An Egyptian Apostates View Pascal’s Wager AAI’s Free-thinking Hero View / Download