I spent the last three days in D.C., during which I spoke at the Center for Inquiry as well as at the University of Delaware in nearby Newark, Delaware. Meanwhile, I tried to find out what, if anything, the U.S. Department of State plans to do about a resolution to shock the conscience adopted on March 28 by the United Nations Human Rights Council, which effectively establishes a blasphemy prohibition at the heart of the international human rights system.
Having just arrived back in New York City for a few days, I found myself watching the sun set over New York Harbor and catching up in conversation with DJ Grothe, who had just finished an interview with Chris Hedges. Apparently there were some fireworks, which I look forward to catching on Point of Inquiry. Hedges' new book is I Don't Believe in Atheists.
I just learned I'll be filling in for my boss Paul Kurtz at a lunchtime address at the New York Academy of Sciences here in Lower Manhattan tomorrow, April 17.
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I'm sure you've seen the article in the New York Times about the Pope's visit
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/us/nationalspecial2/17pope.html?hp
Here's a line I think you'd agree with
“Any tendency to treat religion as a private matter must be resisted.”
- Ratzinger (4/16/08)
i'm looking forward to the Chris Hedges interview on POI.
any word on when it will be posted online?
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