As readers of RD already know from earlier articles, the Council for Secular Humanism held its 30th anniversary annual meeting last week in Los Angeles. For the event, entitled Setting the Agenda: Secular Humanism’s Next 30 Years, the humanist community assembled many of its leading lights, including Sam Harris, Robert Wright, Paul Kurtz, Lawrence Krauss, PZ Myers, and Chris Mooney. Even among such demigods of modern atheism, Friday night’s banquet speaker, Richard Dawkins, attracted the most attention among the nearly 400 humanists at the event.
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