Beyond church and state: Democracy, secularism, and conversion

Secular humanism and atheism beyond progressive secularism

"Freethinkers," including both atheists and secular humanists, have always been a minority in American society--and not a very popular one. There are still laws in several states preventing non-theists from holding office. Just as evangelical Protestants up until one hundred years ago held a largely optimistic view of the future and the end times (known as postmillennialism), secular humanists ...

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Democracy, embryonic stem cell research, and the Roman Catholic church.

The Roman Catholic Church in Australia has lobbied politicians to prohibit embryonic stem cell research, on the grounds that such research violates the sanctity and inherent dignity of human life. I suggest, however, that reasoned reflection does not uniquely support such conclusions about the morality of stem cell research. A recent parliamentary standing committee report recommended that embr...

Beyond - Reduction in Church ' s !

In this paper, we shall write ! using a notation, item notation, which enables one to make more redexes visible, and shall extend -reduction to all visible redexes. We will prove that ! written in item notation and accommodated with extended reduction, satis es all its original properties (such as Church Rosser, Subject Reduction and Strong Normalisation). The notation itself is very simple: if...

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