The social media utopia: What if people started collaborating?
[ 8 minutes to read] Social media promised to connect humanity. Instead, it often became extraordinarily efficient at sorting humanity into…
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God loves you and has a list of conditions
[ 8 minutes to read] God loves you. This is probably one of the most comforting sentences Christianity has ever produced….
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Cruel bank robbery vs. financial crimes
[ 4 minutes to read] When masked robbers storm into a bank with weapons, the event dominates headlines for days. Television…
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Freethinkers in conservative political climates
[ 5 minutes to read] It is easy to be a freethinker in an environment where skepticism, scientific inquiry, and open…
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How freethinking challenges social norms
[ 5 minutes to read] very enduring society depends on shared assumptions. Yet every enduring society also evolves because someone eventually…
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When search engines silence controversy
[ 4 minutes to read] At first glance, search engines appear neutral. They promise relevance. And they promise quality. They imply…
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Vatican and Royal Family: Are we living in the Middle Ages?
[ 6 minutes to read] We like to believe we live in a rational, secular, democratic age, we imagine crowns belong…
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The Mask We Wear: The Silent Struggle of Living a Double Life in Northern Nigeria
[ 2 minutes to read] The Actor in the Front Row The alarm rings at 5:00 AM. Or maybe it is…
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Human rights violations in the name of religion: Third part
[ 3 minutes to read] Human rights frameworks protect freedom of religion while simultaneously prohibiting discrimination, violence, and coercion. This dual…
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The Mask We Wear: The Silent Struggle of Living a Double Life in Northern Nigeria
[ 2 minutes to read] The Actor in the Front Row The alarm rings at 5:00 AM. Or maybe it is…
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Where the next Richard Dawkins will come from?
[ 3 minutes to read] Public culture prefers comforting myths. It likes to believe that influential intellectuals emerge spontaneously, driven only…
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The Quran and Muhammad’s Violence: Osama bin Laden’s Ideology
[ 6 minutes to read] The Qur’an, Islam’s central scripture, holds supreme authority in Muslim society and plays a decisive role…
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Where Rationalists Go Wrong: Stop Sharing Facts — Start Changing Minds
[ 2 minutes to read] Rationalists, skeptics, freethinkers — we love facts. We collect them, share them, throw them like darts…
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Freethinkers International: Why this project must be Dutch-made
[ 4 minutes to read] I hate nationalism. I hate tribalism. Both are poisons. Both divide, distort, and destroy. Nationalism gives…
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The Digital Deity: Can AI and Biohacking Replace Traditional Concepts of God?
[ 4 minutes to read] Is religion, as many of us understand it, on the cusp of a radical transformation, or…
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The Hypocrisy of ‘Defense’: How Israel’s Actions Mirror the Nazi Genocidal Machine
[ 13 minutes to read] It is ironic. Nazi Germany had tried to hide, camouflage and then destroy the evidence of…
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Faith, Friction, and the Erosion of Reason: A Freethinker’s Examination of Religious Influence in the 21st Century
[ 4 minutes to read] The news headlines paint a stark picture: police reports filed over religious insults, measles outbreaks fueled…
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Human Rights Under Fire: Why Freethinkers Must Be Vigilant
[ 4 minutes to read] Is the pursuit of reason and evidence compatible with the fight for human rights? For many…
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The Right to Sleep: India’s Courts Just Redefined Human Dignity—But Is It Enough?
[ 2 minutes to read] The Bombay High Court has affirmed what should be obvious: the right to sleep is a…
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Religious privilege in law: A global overview
[ 7 minutes to read] Religious privilege is deeply embedded in laws across the world, shaping policies, limiting freedoms, and distorting…
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Separation of church and state, secularism and state atheism
[ 6 minutes to read] A secular state must not favor any religion. But it should also not allow religion to…
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Humanist responses to the refugee crisis: A rational, evidence-based approach
[ 4 minutes to read] The global refugee crisis is one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time. Millions…
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Censorship in the name of religious morality
[ 6 minutes to read] Censorship is often framed as a safeguard for societal values. When justified by religious morality, it…
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Monotheistic god cannot be more ridiculous, emerged yesterday
[ 4 minutes to read] Monotheism, the belief in a single, all-powerful God, is a relatively recent development in the grand…
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Ohio’s Bible in Schools Debate: A Collision of Faith and Secularism
[ 4 minutes to read] The battle over religion’s place in public education is heating up once again, this time in…
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Jimmy Carter’s Human Rights Legacy
[ 3 minutes to read] As Jimmy Carter was laid to rest yesterday at the National Cathedral, his monumental legacy in…
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How Long Can Trump Tolerate Musk in the Spotlight?
[ 3 minutes to read] Two Titans, One Spotlight Donald Trump and Elon Musk are no strangers to headlines. Both men…
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Why do atheists hate Christmas?
[ 4 minutes to read] Every December, as holiday cheer fills the air and the buzz of Christmas trees, decorations, and…
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The fourth wave of feminism: Enemy of science?
[ 12 minutes to read] Fourth-wave feminism emerged around 2012. It focuses on issues like sexual harassment, body image, and intersectionality….
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Anti-establishment and pro-establishment freethinkers
[ 15 minutes to read] Can a real freethinker be a pro-establishment person? As you know, many freethinkers were jailed, tortured,…
