Introduction / Robert Basil, Mary Beth Gehrman, Tim Madigan -- A secular humanist declaration / Paul Kurtz -- The ground we stand on: democratic humanism / Sidney Hook -- Freethought: past and present / Gordon Stein -- The religion of secular humanism / Paul H. Beattie with replies by Joseph Fletcher, Sidney Hook, Paul Kurtz -- Secular humanism in American political culture / Adolf Grünbaum -- Secular humanists: threat or menace? / Art Buchwald -- Of humanists and humor / Tim Madigan -- The future of humanism / Paul Kurtz -- Reading, writing, and religion / Mary Beth Gehrman -- Is belief in the supernatural inevitable? / William Sims Bainbridge -- Is religiosity pathological? / Albert Ellis -- Christian Science, faith-healing, and the law / Rita Swan -- The Watchtower: the truth that hurts / Laura Lage -- Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon / George D. Smith -- Tea and sympathy on the way to Mecca -- Thomas Szasz -- "New age" gurus / Robert Basil -- 'Be healed in the name of god' / James Randi -- Peter Popoff reaches heaven via 39.17 megahertz / James Randi -- God helps those who help themselves / Thomas Flynn -- Does faith-healing work? / Paul Kurtz -- Was Jesus a magician? / Morton Smith -- Jesus in time and space / Gerald A. Larue -- The origins of Christianity / R. Joseph Hoffmann -- Keeping the secrets of the Dead Sea scrolls / John M. Allegro -- The continuing monkey war / L. Sprague de Camp -- Anti-science: the strange case of Paul Feyerabend / Martin Gardner with a response by Paul Feyerabend -- The importance of critical discussion / Karl Popper -- The constitution and religion / Sam J. Ervin, Jr. -- The Bible or the constitution? / Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. -- The founding fathers and the courage to doubt / Daniel J. Boorstin -- Isaac Asimov on science and the Bible -- B.F. Skinner on humanism, freedom, and the future of the human species -- Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows on the frailty of reason -- E.O. Wilson on sociobiology and reason -- The relativity of biblical ethics / Joe Edward Barnhart -- God and morality / Sidney Hook -- Are secular humanists evil? / Tom Franczyk -- Morality without religion / Marvin Kohl -- The case for active euthanasia / Gerald A. Larue

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