There is significant angst in the military community about ‘loss of faith’. Loss of faith is listed explicitly as a moral injury and contributor to general and even traumatic stress. The wording ‘loss of faith’ is framed, purposely or not, for negativity and evangelism. The danger is seeing loss of faith as exclusively a bad thing […]
Fellow MAAF Warriors, I had the distinct honor of meeting best selling author, comedian, TV personality and a huge MAAF advocate, Annabelle Gurwitch, at her book signing, “Where You Go, There They Are; Stories About My Family You Might Relate to” in D.C. on April 26th. She spent nearly half of her presentation applauding the […]
by guest poster David K. Spencer, a review of Beyond Technologies by Jens Hughes. Author Hughes said he got the idea for the book after being asked if soldiers returning from war should be asked if they believe in God as an indicator of PTSD risk. Everlasting life for atheists. Now that’ll raise some eyebrows. But […]
No one has to knock on your door and tell you you’re humanist. People adopt a scientific world view and human-based rational ethics all by themselves. Unfortunately, that means they’re disconnected from humanist values, humanist mentors, and humanist community. That is to the detriment of those disconnected humanists because they don’t get that values-based community, […]
I recently finished Living the Secular Life by Phil Zuckerman. It was a great sociological assessment by a sociologist. I was quite confused at first because I am used to ‘atheist’ books the question god and ‘humanist’ books with lots of life lessons. I was confused at first, until I realized this was not such a […]