[…] There is nothing in American law or in the American tradition which says that religion cannot be criticized in education, not does the principle of the separation of church and state involve any such consequence….

MacLeish Committee’s statement, published in The Nation  (1948)      

 

[We are] dedicated to the proposition that a great magazine, in its quest for truth, will dare to defy not only Convention, not only Big Business, not only the Church and the State, but, if necessary, its readers.

 

 Fact magazine (1964)  

Most of our problems can be solved through a practical, pragmatic, and operational philosophy of life known as rationalism, which includes science but rejects mysticism and all kinds of religious and other superstition…. [We] want to help promote sense and expose nonsense.

 

Kaz Dziamka, the editorial note, AR (1997) 

For over fifty years, The American Rationalist has dared to criticize the absurdity of religious and political beliefs and to defy tradition, convention, the Church, and the State. Often AR has also defied its readers, even at the risk of losing some of them. That’s because AR is a special magazine, even among the few free thought publications: we have never relinquished freedom of the intellect under personal, corporate, religious, or any institutional pressure. Independently edited, AR is censored only by the rigor of objective, rational analysis. Reason and common sense are our best friends. Join us!

                                                                                                                             Kaz Dziamka, Editor

KAZ DZIAMKA, Editor

 

An Alternative to Superstition and Nonsense

The Peacemaker [of the Iroquois Confederacy] laid forth a promise of a hopeful future, a future in which there would be no wars, a future in which human beings would gather together to use their minds to create peace. He raised the idea of rational thinking to the status of a political principle. He promoted clear thinking as the highest human potential, and he preached it in the spiritual language of his contemporaries.

                                                                                     

                                                                           John Mohawk, Origin of Iroquois Political Thought

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