Is There a Connection Between the Rise of Religion and the Death of Religion?

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i think that there is a lot soul searching that ought to be done, well on the part of every one, not just famous atheists. The first step is to get clear with yourself and with your family about the values you care about. Yatipin: We have universal human rights that we re-commit to free speech - i mention ahand organization because it was like its founding principle. And then we build this kind of secular humanism that brings all the problems religion brings in its stead.

Shermer, Weiss, and Bartning discuss: why we need the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) when we have the ACLU, the SPLC, etc.; Richard Dawkins canceled by the AHA; hate speech as violence; Liberal and Conservative attitudes toward free speech and how they shifted; private vs. public speech; government censorship vs. cancel culture; anti-Semitism on the Left and the Right; QAnon; Israel and the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestments, Sanctions); What happened at The New York Times?; why free speech is foundational to other rights; and why we need to judge people based on the content of their character and not the color of their skin (or any other immutable characteristic).