James A. Haught In the previous articles, Jim asked the question why many people think religion causes believers to be compassionate and familial. However, historical records give a different view when religious zeal causes followers...
by James A. Haught In the previous article, we asked the question why many people think religion causes believers to be compassionate and brotherly. However, historical records give a different view when religious zeal causes...
by Susan Education Officer and National Coordinator–United Coalition of Reason James A. Haught was born on Feb. 20, 1932, in a small West Virginia farm town that had no electricity or paved streets. He...
by James A. Haught Many people think religion causes believers to be compassionate and brotherly. But the record of history—from human sacrifice to Crusades, to Inquisitions, to witch-hunts, to jihads, to pogroms against Jews,...
This week, James A. Haught, Editor Emeritus of the Charleston Gazette-Mail, shares with us an essay first published in Free Inquiry in 1996 that forecast the future. Surely, he wrote, we will soon be able...
Special Article by James A. Haught Editor Emeritus—The Charleston Gazette-Mail (West Virginia) On Palm Sunday, suicide bombers detonated themselves at two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt, killing 44 and wounding 126. Undoubtedly, the volunteer “martyrs” thought they...
Special Article by James A. Haught Editor Emeritus—The Charleston Gazette-Mail (West Virginia) By now, it’s clear that religion is fading in America, as it has done in most advanced Western democracies. Dozens of surveys...