THE NEW ZEALAND RATIONALIST & HUMANIST

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New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist MARCH 1990
Editorial: The Olympic Games - A Humanist Festival [F]
The Meaning of Life (Pt 2) ALFRED J AYER
Joseph Lewis’s The Ten Commandments  
Jacob Bronowski and Humanism JOHN VICE [NH]
(Untitled) C W N (BILL) COOKE
Sabbath Superstition R G INGERSOLL
Teaching Religion in Public Schools TOM FRANCZYK
Freethought Halls in Australia and New Zealand NIGEL H SINNOTT
Eleanor Boon and the Ladies Secular Association ANDREW WHITEHEAD
It Was a Good Show  
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist AUGUST 1989
Editorial: Just Human Nature  
The Meaning of Life (Pt 1) ALFRED J AYER
On The Resurrection Morning (Reprint) F A RIDLEY
The Fraud of Turin BARBARA SMOKER
Galaxies Galore J W BOURNIER
The Sign of the Cross REGINALD DEANS
(Untitled – Virgin Mary?) MADALYN O’HAIR [AA?]
Contemptuous and Degrading MACE MCCARTHY
Religion’s Other Victims CHRIST TIEDJE
Moral Concepts For Human Survival ROBERT NEWELL
A Passage From Mark Twain  
Christianity Debased Humanity K M WHITTEN
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist MARCH 1989
Editorial: The Growth of Secular Thought E J TAPP
Reason and Rationality DR F L KUMAR
The Reasons For Religious Belief HILARY MOSS
Spiritualism – Is It A Fact? [reprint] JAMES O HANLON
The Redundancy of God BILL COOKE
Soap and Civilisation EVELYN INGLIS
Roots of Atheism JOSEPH MCCABE (?)
Christians in Fantasyland: The Hoax of Creationism MARK BERGER
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist DECEMBER 1988
Editorial: The Meaning Of Life [J O HANLON](?)
Christianity: Its Nature and Influence on Civilisation CHARLES WATTS
The Christian Scheme of Salvation CARINGTON FOSTER
The Problem of Death DAVID TRIBE
Miracles K M WHITTEN
Houdini and Spiritualism R J CONDON
Botha’s Holy War BARRY DUKE
The Failure of Psychic Research SUSAN BLACKMORE
Rationalism and the Modern World  
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist AUGUST 1988
Editorial: Science and Rationalism  
We’ve Been There Before JACK MULHERON
Rewi Alley TOM NEWNHAM
Outgrowing Christianity TONY SMITH
Women’s Struggle For Equality [B]
Ernestine Rose: Troublesome Female MADALYN O’HAIR [AA]
A Rational Meaning of Life E J TAPP
Absolution Through Absolutism  
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist APRIL 1988
Editorial: The Meaning and Value of Freethought  
Atheism  
Submission to Royal Commission on Social Policy J S JONES
From Religious Belief To Secularism in Canada DON PAGE
God and the Holocaust ADOLF GRUNBAUM
Thomas Jefferson  
Me Too SUSAN CASDI
Biology For All A WARWICK DON
The Necessity of Atheism PERCY B SHELLEY
The Reasons Why I Am An Atheist SIR JACK HARRIS
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist DECEMBER 1987
Editorial: The Relevance of Religion Today  
Scientific Creationism vs Evolution WARWICK DON
Are A Secular State and a Jewish State Contradictory? ISAAC HASSON
Bertram Wainer – Abortion Reformer KATHLEEN SINNOTT
Religious Doggerel WARREN SHIBLES
Giordan Bruno, The Forgotten Philosopher  
An Agnostic’s Apology E J TAPP
Church Charity Under The New Establishment JACK MULHERON
Christian Malice  
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist AUGUST 1987
Editorial: The Meaning of Life J O HANLON?
Book Review: The Church on Trial GEORGE BRYANT
The Christian of any other Religious Faith SYDNEY POPPITT
Evolution and the Catholic Dilemma A WARWICK DON
Woman and Christianity CHAPMAN COHEN
From Joseph McCabe’s Rationalist Encyclopedia  
Ronald Reagan’s Religion as a cause of WW3 MICHAEL FERBER
Why I Am Not a Humanist NIGEL H SINNOTT
The Theological Adept JONATHAN STORY
Good Works [AA]
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist APRIL 1987 
Editorial: The Danger of Ignorance  
On the Active List: George Barker (1847-1937) NIGEL H SINNOTT
Philosophy, Religion and a New Look at Man T MARSHALL
Botha’s Holy War BARRY DUKE
Pagan Gods in Judaism R J CONDON
Go Forth and Multiply – Like Rabbits? AARON HILLER
Mormonville: Life in a Theocracy FRED WOODWORTH
Five Positive Reasons To Be An Atheist AUGUST BERKSHIRE
Biting The Final Biscuit JON G MURRAY [AA]
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist DECEMBER 1986
Editorial: An Unnecessary Albeit Charming Fiction PHILLIP ADAMS 
A Proper View of Man HOMER W SMITH
The Historicity of Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls JOHN M ALLEGRO
In God’s Name: Murder of Pope John Paul I DAVID A YALLOP
The Godless World of Joseph Lewis AL BERT
You Scratch My Back [F]
Philosophy, Religion and a New Look At Man T MARSHALL
Book Review: I Can Do No Other  
Women and Christianity JOSEPH MCCABE
Three Brave Women: Agnes, Matilda and Stella Symes NIGEL H SINNOTT
For A Secular and Democratic Israel AVISHAI EHRLICH
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist AUGUST 1986
Recollections of a Rationalist JAMES HANLON (deceased)
Editorial: Human Society and Sectionalism T. MOSLEY
Christians In Fantasyland: The Hoax of Creationism MARK BERGER
Science and Its Critics HAROLD E. McCARTHY
Biblical Petroleum: Prophets and Profits GEORGE GETSCHOW
Comments on Religious Discrimination DONALD J BESWICK
Madalyn Steps Down, Jon Steps Up  
Knowing God A J LOWRY
Free Will G L SIMONS
Bring Me Your Young FRANK ZINDLER
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist DECEMBER 1985
Science and Rationalism  
Freedom In Danger: Threat From Moral Majority LEN BECKETT
Moral Majority – Politics as Revelation JACK MULHERON
Scientists To Counter Cranks, Crackpots DENIS DUTTON
Agnostic, Atheist, Rationalist  GRAEME MARSHALL
Religion and the Physicists E H HUTTON
The Nature of History E J TAPP
Farewell to Newton, Einstein, Darwin ALLEN HAMMOND & LYNN MARGULIS
Courtesy of Science: Creationism as a Social Movement JOHN SKOW
W W Collins (1853-1923) H H PEARCE & N H SINNOTT
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist DECEMBER 1985
Science and Peace  
Address to American Atheists Convention JOHN (JACK) JONES
The Search For Salvation JOHN MARSHALL
Doctrine and Ethics R A SALMON
The Opium of the People  KARL HEATH
The Self-Discipline of Reason ANDREA PENNARD
Atheist Musicians MADALYN O’HAIR [AA]
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist APRIL 1985
Editorial  
The Efficacy of Prayer A I HOLT
Submissions on Religious Instruction  
Funeral Oration for H H Pearce (1897-1984) NIGEL SINNOTT
Savage Survival in Civilisation J S SMALL
How Freethinkers Die ALAN REID
A Vatican Secret (Pope Joan)  
Biographical Sketch: David Hume C T GORHAM
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist DECEMBER 1984
Editorial: Putting Man in His Place  
Truth  THOMAS BERNARD
Religious Propaganda in Schools C A MACE
Henri Dunant F A RIDLEY
The Liberty of Man Woman & Child  ROBERT G INGERSOLL
The Ghosts ROBERT G INGERSOLL
The Journal in Retrospect  
Univeral Man E H HUTTON
Roots of Atheism: Robert Ingersoll [MADALYN O’HAIR] [AA]
The Next Great Revelation in Human Thought [reprint] GORDON CAULFEILD
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist AUGUST 1984
Editorial: Freedom From Religion  CHARLES B EDELMAN
The Influence of Religious Belief on Homicide JERRY BERGMAN
Whitewashing the Bible JOHN C HENDERSON
Truth THOMAS BERNARD
Integration and Disintegration DONALD J BESWICK
Religion is a Bane of Human Progress LAVANAM
Nuclear War - Has It Already Begun? KEN BURBIDGE
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist APRIL 1984
Editorial: The Significance of Atheism ANON
An Open Letter to a Clergyman BERNARD KATZ
Humanism and the Mass Media RUSSELL JOYNER
Poems: "Sheep" and "Hunger" L S STIVERS and B BYRON
The Martyrdom of Man (W W Reade) M J GAVVIN [GAUVIN]
Honest and Thorough (C Bradlaugh and R Ingersoll) [F]
New Zealand Meat Exports BLANCHE WINN
Religious Education and the State School System BEVERLEY WINN
Environment and Christianity MADALYN M. O’HAIR
Joseph Symes and 1984 NIGEL SINNOTT
Luis Palau: Christian Terrorist ?
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist, Vol 46 No 11 DECEMBER 1983
Guest Editorial: A SOLOMOM (Indian Secular Society)   
Gems Concerning the Holy Bible from R G Ingersoll JOSEPH LEWIS
Fundamentalists and Evolutionists C PETER FUREY
Curse of Excommunication upon Spinoza [AR]
Primitive Punishments HARRY "TAFF" GREENHALGH
An Alternative Morality [AA]
A New Code of Ethics KATE CONTOS
Spinoza and Humanism G H R PARKINSON
The Emergence of Liberal Humanism W H COATES, H V WHITE, J S SCHAPIRO
Atheist or Agnostic  
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist Vol 45 No 10 AUGUST 1983
Editorial: Significance of Wider Rationalism W J MILES
Does Science Make It Harder to Believe in God? MARSHALL J GAUVIN
Through Religion to Real Salvation MARSHALL J GAUVIN
Does Civilisation Need Christianity? "ESSENCE OF FREETHOUGHT"
Anthropocentric Thinking JULIA TODD FORBES
Famous Blasphemy Trials J R SPENCER
The Faith of A Rationalist BERTRAND RUSSELL
The Meaning of Value of Freethought [NSS]
Catholic Generosity Creates Arguments D J BESWICK
The Folly of Fundamentalism FRANK KENNESON
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist Vol 44 No 9 APRIL 1983
Freethought - the Foundation of Civilisation MARSHALL J GAUVIN 
The Dwindling Priesthood [F]
The Incredible Shrinking Creation Model FREDERICK EDWORDS
If the Stars Rule Your Life... ALBERT ELLIS 
Charles Bradlaugh: Giant of Freethought [T]
Submission on Religious Instruction  
Vatican Bank Involved in Another Scandal (AA)
The Path To Integration DONALD J BESWICK
From the Works of Joseph McCabe: Indulgences JOSEPH MCCABE
The Danger of Fundamentalism JOYCE CLAYTON
From the Humanist In Canada PAUL KURTZ
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist Vol 43 No 8 DECEMBER 1982
Why Humanity Is Giving Up Belief in God I G HARVEY
Are We the Immoral Minority? ARTHUR D WILMOT
Rationalism or Atheism? CHARLES ALLDRITT
The Bible - A Dangerous Moral Guide [AA]
The Face of Evil [AA]
Kill the Roots and the Trees Will Rot Away CHARLES BRADLAUGH
Inside the Pope’s Bank [AA]
Man’s Inhumanity to Man [AA]
1882: The Australian Secular Association NIGEL H SINNOTT 
Civilisation and the Secular Public Schools MARSHALL J GAUVIN
Ethics Without Religion KAI NIELSEN
Whose Idea Was Integration DONALD J BESWICK
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist Vol 43 No 7 AUGUST 1982
Editorial: Divide and Comfort DAVID BERMAN
Rationalism: The Religion of Reason MARSHALL J GAUVIN
Pope John Paul II [F]
Animals: The Envy of Man E W FLINT
Woman’s Victory Over the Church (?)
The War Prayer MARK TWAIN
Dismantling State Education JACK MULHERON
And a Little Child Will Lead Them (?)
Aid To Private Schools D J BESWICK
The Fourth Commandment MADALYN M. O’HAIR
Twentieth Century Zealotry ANTONY MILNES
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist Vol 43 No 6 APRIL 1982
The Crusade Against Sex Education PAUL KURTZ
Pricey Papal Visit [F]
Abraham Lincoln - Freethinker E HALDEMAN-JULIUS
God and the State MICHAEL BAKUNIN
Our Moral Heritage [AA]
What Would You Substitute for the Bible? ROBERT G INGERSOLL
Blue Moonies [A]
The Man In The Red Shirt - Garibaldi NIGEL H SINNOTT
Thomas Jefferson [AA]
There Is No God FRED WOODWORTH
Shelley - In Defense of Freedom ELLEN MARDAN
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist Vol 42 No 5 DECEMBER 1981
Editorial: Atheism Is Mental Freedom  
Canon Law J A WYLIE
Book Defamed Pope DONALD J BESWICK
Why I Am A Rationalist SIR JACK HARRIS
Science and Humanism H NARASIMHAIAH
Exploding the Great Flood Shortage Myth (?)
Biographies: Diderot;Juarez; Ferrer; Luxemberg [AA]
The Causes of Violence In the World CHARLES BIESICK
Origins and Meanings of Christian Festivals CHRIS BROWN & REG MCLEAN
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist Vol 41 No 5 JUNE 1981
Editorial: Emotion and Reason JOSEPH MCCABE
Foundation of Belief ARTHUR BALFOUR
Alienation in the West: The Growth of Cults NEIL KEIDON
World Union of Freethinkers  
The Woman’s Bible ELIZABETH C STANTON
Encyclopedia Britannica and Catholic Truth D J BESWICK
Man and His Soul J A MACDONALD
Christians More Likely To Approve War  
J S Mill: One of the Enduring Voices SHERLEY ASHTON
Obituary: John Bowden (1888-1981) ALF HAMLYN
Religion: The Ultimate Evil E W FLINT
Attitude of Sir Robert Stout Towards Religion E J TAPP
From the USA BRUCE BUURSMA
The Character of a Catholic School  
Lest We Forget Greatness: Bertrand Russell  
Atheist For PM? Michael Foot  
Public Obscenity DAVID SHAW
Witches and The Place of Women M. GLASS
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist Vol 41 No 4 DECEMBER 1980
Editorial: The Meaning and Value of Freethought CHAPMAN COHEN
Two Views of Religion: (1) Growing Away From God MARGOT LINDSAY
(2) Last Thoughts on God CLOUGH WILLIAMS-ELLIS
Mr Wellington’s Waterloo E J TAPP
Distorted Version of Atheism [AR]
The Argument Is Not About Paradise In Heaven IOSIF GRIGULEVICH
The Sane Alternative JAMES ROBERTSON
The Warmongers (Poem) S WALHEN
Heinous Crimes Committed For Salvation DR VIJAYAM
Signs of the Times BAREN VLAARDINGERBROCK
Cover: Bertrand Russell  
Salvation Army Infected  
The Devil and Mr Nixon  
The Legend of the Coliseum [sic]  
Intelligence of Ants Demonstrated  
The Way to Perennial Exploitation  
Pope vs Liberalism  
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist Vol 40 No 3 JUNE 1980
Editorial: The Ten Commandments JOSEPH LEWIS
From Supernaturalism to Naturalism E J TAPP
On Democracy IRVINE BARAT
Supernatural Existence GUS AYRES
Roots of Atheism GEORGE J HOLYOAKE
Why Not a Boycott says the Tablet  
Why Christianity Failed REV. DUDLEY HYDE
Michael Servetus (1511-1553)  
Cover: F M Price J HANLON
Israel; South Africa  
Mother Teresa: Sacred Cow BARBARA SMOKER
Religion In State Schools CHARLES ALLDRITT

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[AA] American Atheist
[AH] American Humanist
[B] The Beacon
(Melbourne Unitarian Church)
[F] The Freethinker
(National Secular Society, UK)
[F20] Freethought 20
th Century
[NH] New Humanist
(Rationalist Press Association, UK)
[NSS] National Secular Society
[SS] Secular Subjects
(USA)
[T] The Truthseeker
(USA)

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