When Faith Fails Children—
Religion-Based Neglect: Pervasive, Deadly . . . and Legal?
by Rita Swan
Efforts to heal by prayer and faith can prove not only
ineffective but dangerous. Here a nationally recognized authority
on religiously motivated medical neglect tells the stories of ten
children who died because faith healing fatally delayed or
substituted for medical care. Hundreds of such cases are known,
and death isn't the only consequence; many more suffer pain and
lifelong disability because medical care was denied. The effects
of this neglect can even reach beyond given religious communities
when uninoculated children spread communicable diseases to others.
The reason these social problems continue is because our laws
effectively condone them.
Articles:
U.S. Prisons Mean Money
by Andrew Hartman
Close to two million people are behind bars in the United
States, and that has created so many money-making opportunities
for big business that Americans must now confront a
prison-industrial complex that is changing laws and
violating human rights.
Invisible History
by Paul Shore
Beyond the obvious scars on the European landscape that
remind us of the Nazi era, there are hidden ones yet to be
revealed. One is the Polish city of Wroclaw, where Nazis abandoned
their own twisted ideals, sacrificing their most loyal citizens
for the preservation of a few elite soldiers and demonstrating
that there's no honor among the brutal.
A New Sense of the Sacred:
Carl Sagan's "Cosmic Connection"
by Ann Druyan
In honor of the twentieth anniversary of the
Cosmos TV series, we remember the late Carl Sagan as an
exemplary humanist who worked for forth years to remove the
barriers between science and society and offered a new ethical and
spiritual vision for humanity.
Humanism in the Twenty-first Century
by Babu Gogineni
The executive director of the International Humanist and
Ethical Union defends humanism against its critics, outlines the
problems humanism facies, and offers a new vision for the
liberation of humanity.
Humanity's Challenge:
What Each of Us Must Do About the African AIDS Crisis
by Anne Trowbridge
Africa's AIDS pandemic isn't "somebody else's problem."
With the virus mutating into new and more dangerous variants the
situation is becoming so desperate that only heroic efforts on an
international scale will turn the tide. But there are specific
ways you can help.
Features:
Letters to the Editor
Up Front
Dr. Laura Goes TV—But at What Cost?
National Action Appeal on Housing
Discrimination by Senator Joseph Lieberman Again
Nonbelievers
Watch on the Right: The Network of Righteousness
Civil Liberties Watch: The Federal Government: Moral Guardian
of the Internet
Humanistic Economics: The Politics of Homework
The Culture War: The Big Tent: Too Small for Women?
