Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
Your humanist community for scientific, skeptical, secular, and rational inquiry.
By Ateizm Dernegi (Association of Atheism, Turkey) Volunteers When converting the Hagia Sophia Museum into a mosque was added to the agenda of the Turkish government, we worried that this would be a sign of the governmental system being converted into a religious system. More precisely, if Hagia Sophia were opened for worship, one of the symbols of…
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By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Human rights violations and breaches of secularism and international law on small scales remain problems. Violations on large scales inflicted wholesale upon victimized and, often, defenceless peoples is tragic, violent, and immediate, even spanning decades into long-term effects of the entire lives of most of the survivors. They may never return…
By Sandra Dunham Has there been a more contentious issue for secularists in Canada than Quebec’s Bill 21? At CFIC, we’ve seen that this issue has been divisive for our secular community. We think that it is important to have a discussion about this topic, not to change minds, but to enhance our understanding of…
By Doug Skeggs I happened to be in our back garden this past Sunday morning and heard bells ringing from one of the churches across the Muskrat River. It got me thinking about my neighbours and others in our community who typically attend church services every Sunday, and wondering how they’re doing. Attending church is…
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By Leslie Rosenblood Secularism has several definitions, and confusion can result if people do not have a common understanding of how it is being used. CFIC supports political secularism, defined as government neutrality in matters of religion; that is, the state should neither support nor suppress religious expression. Quebec’s Bill 21, regrettably generally referred to as its…
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