Response to Mind Siege
"Response to Mind Siege"
[a VCR recording]
will be presented by Paul Kurtz
Paul Kurtz, PhD, is Editor-in-Chief of Free Inquiry, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Chairman of the Center for Inquiry/Transnational. For forty years, Kurtz has remained the leading organizational and intellectual figure in the humanist and skeptical movement.
Mind Siege Amazon.com
Readers who are aligned with the Christian far right will find kindred spirits in authors Tim LaHaye (coauthor of the "Left Behind" series) and David Noebel (Understanding the Times). The duo has assembled a fear-producing manifesto attacking just about every known minority group and liberal social cause. In the opening chapter, (ominously titled "It Could Happen..."), the authors offer an exaggerated vision of what the world could look like in 10 years if we still forbid Christianity to be taught in U.S. public schools, or if Americans continue to offer gays and lesbians equal rights, or dozens of other similar horrors. What is the root of this evil future scenario? "Secular Humanism," according to the authors. "Unfortunately, the mainline churches ... have eaten, swallowed and disgusted tons of humanistic dogma: evolution, socialism, Marxism, higher criticism of the Bible, moral relativism, amoral sex education, nontraditional families, liberation theology, process theology, gay theology, feminist theology, black theology, world government, and global citizenship to name a few." Some readers will be thrilled by this call to trek what the authors feel is the moral high ground, especially those who base their religious values upon intolerance of racial equity, homosexual love, and women's right to choose (even if that choice makes her a single parent in a "nontraditional family"). Others will most likely find this a disturbing and offensive contribution to the American landscape. --Gail Hudson , Amazon.com
Noon Sunday, June 29, 2008
The Red Lobster Restaurant 2735 N. Atlantic Ave. (Rte A1A), Daytona Beach
about 1 mile south of Granada Blvd. (Rte 40)
The public is invited. Free to CFI Friends of the Center; $6 requested from others. You can order from the lunch menu. Seating is limited so reservations are encouraged. Please email your reservations to [or phone 386-671-1921] giving names as they are to appear on name tags. Our usual agenda is: Signing in about noon; and lunch from about 12:15 to 1 PM when the program usually begins and lasts until about 2 PM when a discussion period follows. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
