Article of Interest for June 8, 2017

The ISHV Cyber Think Tank is a digest of articles, interviews, and other musings compiled by ISHV Board Member Robert B. Tapp.

Richard Dawkins, Cause & Effect CFI page read

Sam Harris: The Road to Tyranny: A Conversation with Timothy Snyder watch

Richard Lloyd Jones, Largest UU church votes to move downtown (Tulsa) read

aeu.org, Ethical Humanism website read

Network for Church Monitoring, Church and State read

Paul Cliteur, Is There Another Way to Discover the Truth than by Free Discussion? read

John B. Hooper, Humanist Edge: Educating Strong Humanist Leaders read

Anthony B. Pinn, Humanism and the Challenge of Privilege read

Clay Farris Naff, The Humanevangelist: To End War, We Must First Understand It read

Donald A. Collins, Organized Religions Are Organized To Control Their Laities’ Lives read

Antonia Blumberg, New Study Suggests U.S. Has A Lot Of ‘Closet’ Atheists read

Valerie Tarico and David Fitzgerald, Evidence for Jesus is weaker than you might think read

Marlin Lavanhar, Love Where We Are (Meadville/Lombard Commencement address (also audio link) read

John Scales Avery, We Need Their Voices Today: Thomas Paine read

The Unraveling A Conversation with David Frum with Sam Harris watch

Valerie Tarico, What if Jesus Never Existed? An Interview with History Writer David Fitzgerald read

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Colbert discuss whether god exists (5m) watch

Valerie Tarico & David Fitzgerald, Evidence for Jesus is Weaker than You Might Think read

David Breeden, Getting It Right Like the BCE read

Andrew Hall, Scientists Prove Atheists Don’t Exist (unusual journal!) read

2017 Secular Values Summit read

Michael Shermer, If There is No God, is Murder Wrong? (8m) watch

Trav Mamone, Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly in 2015, Reversing Downward Trend read

Valerie Tarico, Would You Like to Have a Kid in the Next Year? read

Dan Colman, Richard Dawkins on Why We Should Believe in Science: “It Works … Bitches” read

Reza Aslan filmed the lost “Flying Spaghetti Monster” episode in Bolingbrook (Fiction) read

CFI’s 2016 Progress Report read

David Breeden, Meaning, Purpose, and Individualism: Thinking Our Way Out of Self-Reliance read

Brief encounter: Steven Pinker read

Adam Parker, Herb Silverman reflects on his life, beliefs as a public atheist read

Michael Werner, Let’s Celebrate! read

Marcus Ranum, Book Review: History of Skepticism (Popkin) read

Ask Me Anything 7, Sam Harris deals with questions about his podcast with Charles Murray watch

Let There Be Cake: An Interview with Maggie Ardiente read

Valerie Tarico, Can Bacteria Help Us Understand Religion? Part 1 read , Part 2 read , Part 3 read, Part 4 read

David Breeden, Getting It Right Like the BCE read

Karla Gachet, Massimo Pigliucci on Seneca’s Stoic philosophy of happiness – Massimo Pigliucci read

Joan Reisman-Brill, The Humanist Dilemma: Who Knew Sexuality Was So Complicated? read

2016 Secular Social Justice Conference features largest gathering of atheist of color activists read

Maggie Ardiente, No, President Trump, We’re Not “A Nation of Believers” read

Tom Gilson, Christianity, Women, and How Atheists Avoid the Facts That Matter read