How freethought was born
The war between science and religion began in Ancient Greece. More than two millennia ago, the Greek peninsula was the first known place where a few intelligent thinkers sought natural explanations for phenomena instead of swallowing supernatural ones. At that time, magical faith abounded. Greeks sacrificed thousands of animals to a zoo of absurd gods […]
Existentialism: a philosophy for secular humanists
Our lives are just brief blips in the enormous span of human history. We could have been prehistoric primates — or medieval serfs — or people centuries in the future — serving our short stays, then gone.