THE NEW ZEALAND RATIONALIST & HUMANIST

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New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist SUMMER 1999-2000
Editorial: Humanist Manifesto 2000 BILL COOKE
Arguments to Design (public debate between Neil Broom, Robert Mann, Bill Cooke and Robert Nola)  
Stranger Than Fiction: Is Environmentalism Good? ELIZABETH McKENZIE
Southern Lights: A Wedding RUSSELL DEAR
How To Speak and Write Postmodern STEPHEN KATZ
The Road to Kosovo VICTOR BOLDT
Adam’s Rib: The Tyranny of the Temporal Lobe ANNE FERGUSON
Book Reviews: On the Eve of The Millennium
The Catlins Collection
 
Nostradamnonsense: Failed Biblical Prophecies  
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist SPRING 1999
Editorial: The Second-hand Lada BILL COOKE
Some Impression of Contemporary Humanism BILL COOKE
Fear and Guilt in Dairyland PETER MURPHY
Southern Lights: Off To Hell RUSSELL DEAR
Is Abortion Justifiable? ZOË DURING
Stranger Than Fiction: Geology in the Human Body ELIZABETH McKENZIE
Drugs: The Problem is the Policy JOHN MARKS
Beliefs at the End of the Millennium  
Adam’s Rib: New Commandments ANNE FERGUSON
Swami Beyondawonda’s Ten Guidelines  
Does Society Need Mr Geering? BILL COOKE
Book Reviews: The Bible in History 
Confessions of a Philosopher (Magee)
 
Nostradamnonsense  
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist WINTER 1999
Editorial: Knowing Who You Are BILL COOKE
Is Humanism a Religion? BILL COOKE
Origins of the Qu’ran: Ibn Warraq’s new book IBN RAWANDI
Southern Lights: Poor Darwin RUSSELL DEAR
Stranger Than Fiction: Next of Kin Update VICKI HYDE
International Humanist Congress in India  
Thinking For Oneself RON DULTZ
Adam’s Rib: Sin No More ANNE FERGUSON
Book Review: Saints and Sinners (Duffy) BILL COOKE
Huxley (Desmond) MARTA MCKENZIE
Nostradamnonsense  
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist AUTUMN 1999
Editorial: A Century of the Best of Causes BILL COOKE
Claude Debussy: The Pagan Perfectionist PETER HANSEN
NZARH Awards Presentation 1998 NGAIRE McCARTHY
Southern Lights: No Key RUSSELL DEAR
Christianity in Creationism HAYDEN WOOD
Islam: The Arab Imperialism ANWAR SHAIKH
Values Via Religion GEORGE PIRIE
Adam's Rib: Rights Are Fragile Flowers ANNE FERGUSON
Stranger Than Fiction: Blame It on Biology VICKI HYDE
Book Review: Fashionable Nonsense (Sokal) BILL COOKE
Nostradamnonsense  
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist SUMMER 1999 [1998/1999]
Editorial: Academic Freedom BILL COOKE
Charles Darwin: Evolutionist and Materialist H JAMES BIRX
Southern Lights: Towards a Better Future RUSSELL DEAR
Launch of Heathen In Godzone BRIAN EDWARDS
Fighting the Forces of Fundamentalism DAVID TRIBE
An Atheist Daniel Among the Christian Lions BILL COOKE
Adam’s Rib: With A Bare Bodkin ANNE FERGUSON
Stranger Than Fiction: Next of Kin VICKI HYDE
Book Review: Heathen In Godzone (Cooke)  PETER MURPHY
In Memoriam: Frank Rodger  
Nostradamnonsense  
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist SPRING 1998
Editorial: Spiritual Dimensions in Schools? BILL COOKE
Verily, He Died Too Young: W K Clifford TIMOTHY MADIGAN
Southern Lights: Out of Control RUSSELL DEAR
Charles Southwell: New Zealand's first freethinker BILL COOKE
Adam’s Rib: Stand Up For Ceremony ANNE FERGUSON
Truth and Reason in Peril PETER RUSSELL
Religion in State Schools MARY PETERSEN
Oslo Conference on Freedom of Religion BABU GOGINENI
Stranger Than Fiction: Who’s That? VICKI HYDE
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist WINTER 1998
Editorial: Religion or Values? BILL COOKE
Humanist View of Animal Rights PEG TITTLE
Stranger Than Fiction: Through a VDU Darkly VICKI HYDE
Storm in a Condom BILL COOKE
Creationism vs. Reason WARWICK DON
Adam’s Rib: Fantasy in Its Place ANNE FERGUSON
Response to Ibn Warraq WILLIAM SHEPARD
Abusive Priests GORDON MACRAE
Southern Lights: Weird One RUSSELL DEAR
Nuclear Explosions in South Asia  
Book Reviews: Why I Am Not a Muslim (Warraq) 
Alone of All Her Sex (Warner)
Pope Pourri (Dollison)
BILL COOKE
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist AUTUMN 1998
Editorial: Rationalism and Human Nature BILL COOKE
Fighting the Forces of Fundamentalism IAN PLIMER
We Are Not Doing Islam a Favour… IBN WARRAQ
My Humanist Spirituality ERIC GRIMES
Southern Lights: Fallacious Communication RUSSELL DEAR
"It Has Been Scientifically Proved!" ELAINE COOPER
Book Review: Darwinian Evolution (Flew)  
The Birth of Humanism and Rationalism GEORGE PIRIE
Adam’s Rib: Cradle Rockers Rule OK ANNE FERGUSON
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist SUMMER 1997/1998
Editorial: Unbearable Lightness of Postmodernism BILL COOKE
Giordano Bruno H JAMES BIRX
Seventy Years of Rationalist Publications BILL COOKE
Southern Lights: What’s In A Name? RUSSELL DEAR
Fear and Guilt in Dairyland PETER MURPHY
A Drone On Religion  
Adam’s Rib: The Diana Factor LYNLEY MILLAR
Science CHARLES ALLDRITT
Is God A War Criminal? STEVE COOPER
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist SPRING 1997
Editorial: What Is Spirituality BILL COOKE
A Rebel To His Last Breath: Joseph McCabe BILL COOKE
Seventy Years of Presidents BILL COOKE
Southern Lights: Shaking Off The Shackles RUSSELL DEAR
A Kind of Abuse STEVE COOPER
Ask the Parson KARL HEATH
Adam’s Rib: Somebody Up There Likes Me LYNLEY MILLAR
Book Reviews: Why I Am Not A Muslim (Warraq) WILLIAM SHEPARD
Ages of Gaia (Lovelock)  
Secularism In Germany  
The Vanishing Hypothesis  
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist WINTER 1997
The Freethought Renaissance BILL COOKE
Putting the ‘Who’ into Humanism ROSSLYN IVES
A Patrician Mystic Laments BILL COOKE
Adam’s Rib: The Religion Game LYNLEY MILLAR
Dr Lewis Fretz Does Not Understand Humanism BILL COOKE & PETER HANSEN
Michael Denton and the Fossil Record WARWICK DON
Seventy Years of Rationalist Journalism BILL COOKE
Southern Lights: Out of Control (Pt 2) RUSSELL DEAR
Book Reviews: Liberating the Gospels (Spong) BILL COOKE
 Contemporary Materialism (Moser & Trout) H JAMES BIRX
 Science vs Religion WAYNE CHURCH
 Creedism: Religious Prejudice in NZ (Elsmore) PETER MURPHY
 Being Human GEORGE PIRIE
 First Do No Harm (Goodyear-Smith) HANS LAVEN
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist AUTUMN 1997
Editorial: A New Era BILL COOKE
The Fate of Thomas Paine HAZEL BURGESS
Southern Lights: Out Of Control (1) RUSSELL DEAR
W K Clifford and the Presumption of Atheism ANTONY FLEW
1996 Annual Dinner  
Adam’s Rib: Know Thy Place LYNLEY MILLAR
Book Reviews: The Big Domino In the Sky (Martin) FINNGEIR HIORTH
Visions of Reality: What Fundamentalist Schools Teach (Menendez) PETER MURPHY
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist SUMMER 1997
Editorial: Kiwis See Through Christian Coalition BILL COOKE
In Pursuit of Happiness STEVE COOPER
H G Wells: Prophet, Prophet, Thinker and Humanist BILL COOKE
Adam’s Rib: Stars From A Black Hole LYNLEY MILLAR
Book Reviews: A History of God (Armstrong) GEORGE PIRIE
 The Future of Our Past (Blackham) PETER MURPHY
 Where Have All the Christians Gone? (Yeoman) PETER MURPHY
Southern Lights RUSSELL DEAR
Humanism As Seen By An Outsider ADELE WHITTAKER
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist SPRING 1996
Editorial: Value-Free Education RUSSELL DEAR
President’s Report 1996 BILL COOKE
Where I Have Come From KEITH ROBINSON
Adam’s Rib: Warm Fuzzies LYNLEY MILLAR
T.A.N.G. Critique DAVID JOHN HILLARY
T.A.N.G. Defended MICHAEL MARTIN
Southern Lights: What Is Religion? RUSSELL DEAR
Carl Sagan on Science and Reason  
Book Reviews: Faces in the Clouds (Guthrie) BILL COOKE
Matter and Consciousness (Churchland) H JAMES BIRX
The Darwin Reader (Ridley) H JAMES BIRX
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist WINTER 1996
Editorial: What Do We Have In Common … BILL COOKE
The Christian Coalition BILL COOKE
Southern Lights: Secular and … RUSSELL DEAR
Ethics Without Religion GEORGE PIRIE
Visit of Professor Ian Plimer  
Adam’s Rib: Inclined to Superstition LYNLEY MILLAR
Rationalist Association Joins the IHEU  
Tragedy and Opportunity at American Atheists BILL COOKE
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist AUTUMN 1996
Editorial: Why We Need To Change Our Objects BILL COOKE
Dissemination of Misinformation FELICITY GOODYEAR-SMITH
Transcendental Argument of the Non Existence of God MICHAEL MARTIN
Southern Lights: Authority RUSSELL DEAR
Mapplethorpe: The Real Issue WAYNE CHURCH
Adam’s Rib: Deep Heat LYNLEY MILLAR
The Power of Concepts STEVE COOPER
Freedom of Religion CHARLES ALLDRITT
A Fable With A Moral BILL COOKE
Book Reviews: Knowledge of Angels (Walsh)  
 Telling Lies For God (Plimer) BILL COOKE
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist SUMMER 1995
Editorial: The Motor and the Key BILL COOKE
Dancing to the Music of DNA MEGAN TRESIDDER
A Creationist Fable WARWICK DON
Learn to Read the Bible Effectively LYNLEY MILLAR
Bertrand Russell: Humanist BILL COOKE
Presidents of the Rationalist Association: F A De La Mare BILL COOKE
Southern Lights: Sometimes I Think … RUSSELL DEAR
Book Reviews: The Bible Without Illusions (Hanson) GEORGE PIRIE
 What Is Wrong With Jung (McGowan) HANS LAVEN
 The Small Book (Trimpey) SHANE MERCER
(Radio Liberty Soapbox 29/6/96) BILL COOKE
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist SPRING 1995 [date by season]
Editorial: Rationalism and Politics BILL COOKE
The Menace of Islam ANTONY FLEW
Comments on Norse Mythology CHARLES ALLDRITT
Taking the Fun out of Fundamentalism LYNLEY MILLAR
Voices For Justice: A Reply to Bill Cooke ALAN CAMERON
Postscript on Potterne Wick KEN BURBIDGE
Book Review: Vicars of Christ (De Rosa) BILL COOKE
Southern Lights: Good Company RUSSELL DEAR
Book Review: Gadfly: James Shelley (Carter) BILL COOKE
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist JUNE 1995 [date by month]
Editorial: Is Rationalism Destructive? BILL COOKE
Sir Robert Stout and Freethought JIM DAKIN
Getting The Best Out Of Life STEVE COOPER
Flew’s Presumption MICHAEL MARTIN
Southern Lights: Free Gifts RUSSELL DEAR
Book Review: The Case Against Christianity (Martin) CONRAD INSKIP
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist MARCH 1995
Editorial: Rationalism, Humanism, and Eupraxophy BILL COOKE
The Road to Potterne Wick KEN BURBIDGE
I Believe JULIE CARTER
Evolution H JAMES BIRX
Evolution Statement from NZ Rationalist Association BILL COOKE
The Presumption of Atheism ANTONY FLEW
Southern Lights: Religion In Schools RUSSELL DEAR
Obituary: Owen Garth Smith S O SMITH
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist DECEMBER 1994
Editorial: The Open Society Meets the Age of Reason BILL COOKE
The Most Narrow Minded Cult that Exists BILL COOKE
Karl Popper (1902-1994)  
Thomas Paine: A Noble Fighter J O HANLON
Cosmic or Comic? LYNLEY MILLAR
Southern Lights: Antitheists RUSSELL DEAR
Thoughts on the Longevity of Superstitions PETER MÜNZ
Atheism and the Meaning of Life NICK PULLAR
Book Reviews: Challenges to the Enlightenment (Kurtz & Madigan) BILL COOKE
The Jesus Idea (Rothstein) BILL COOKE
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist SEPTEMBER 1994
Editorial: The Wide World of Rationalism BILL COOKE
Ernst Haeckel H JAMES BIRX
Bull from Canada BILL COOKE
The Beginning of the Hawke’s Bay Freethinkers KATE CONTOS
The Hawke’s Bay Freethinkers: The Next Step KEITH ROBINSON
Self Esteem STEVE COOPER
Arguments to Design ANTONY FLEW
Southern Lights: Disagreement RUSSELL DEAR
Apologising For Christianity: Steve Kumar BILL COOKE
Book Reviews: Christian Apologetics (Kumar) BILL COOKE
Atheistic Humanism (Flew)  
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist JUNE 1994
The Purpose of Rationalism BILL COOKE
The Dark Side of Christianity KARL HEATH
The Crisis in Moral Authority GEORGE PIRIE
Southern Lights: Fear of Women RUSSELL DEAR
Book Review: Secular Who’s Who (Dahlitz) BILL COOKE
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist APRIL 1994
Editoral: Ross Mackie Memorial Issue BILL COOKE
God’s Work: Does Business Need Religion VAUGHN YARWOOD
God’s Perfect Revelation To Humanity "TRUTHSEEKER"
Southern Lights: Out of the Woodwork RUSSELL DEAR
Evil-ution and Magic BILL COOKE
An Interview With God KEN RING
Book Review: Eupraxophy - Living Without Religion (Kurtz) BILL COOKE
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist DECEMBER 1993
Editorial: With Rhyme or Reason BILL COOKE
Friedrich Nietzsche H JAMES BIRX
Realising Women’s Rights CECILIE RUSHTON
The Bible Story C P LOWSON
Book Review: Mythology’s Lost Gods (Harwood) BILL COOKE
Questions About Rationalism  
Organisations of Unbelief in Australia 1856-1981 (Pt 2)  
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist SEPTEMBER 1993
Editorial: The Process of Reason BILL COOKE
Rationalism 1993 TREVOR HOOPER
Let’s Call Things by their Real Name BILL COOKE
Why I Rejected Religion STEVE COOPER
Questions About Rationalism  
The Lions of Materialism DAVID EDWARDS
The Amazing Randi  
Now Is the Time For All Good Christians … CONRAD INSKIP
Out of the Frying Pan BILL COOKE
Programme For the Future RAY DAHLITZ
Organisations of Unbelief in Australasia 1856-1981 (Pt 1)  
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist JUNE 1993
Editorial: H James Birx Special Issue BILL COOKE
Cults, Codes, and Education CHARLES ALLDRITT
The Visit of Prof H James Birx BILL COOKE
In Place of Religion JOSEPH McCABE
The Power of Concepts STEVE COOPER
God and Death EVERETT BISHOP
Presidents of the NZRA: Charles E Major BILL COOKE
If I Believed the Christian Creed H H PEARCE
Organisations of Unbelief RAY DAHLITZ
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist DECEMBER 1992
Editorial: Our Journal BILL COOKE
Sins of the Celibate  
Foreword C E MAJOR
Another Pilgrim CHARLES ALLDRITT
A Personal View RUSSELL DEAR
My *#@+%~ Oath! JACK JONES
People of Unbelief: Part One RAY DAHLITZ
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist AUGUST 1992
Editorial: The Meaning of Life JAMES HANLON (?)
Religion vs the Scientific Revolution F A ROBERTS
An Anglican’s Guide to Prayer NEIL BLEWITT
Robert Owen ?
God Gets It Off His Chest NEIL BLEWITT
People of Unbelief RAY DAHLITZ
Zionism as Viewed by Secularis [sic] MAXINE NEGRI
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist APRIL 1992
Editorial: Papal Humbug ANON
Chapman Cohen - Champion of Freethought [RICHARD F STRATTON]
Giving ‘Em Hell CHAPMAN COHEN
Steven Kropko [actually Robert Ingersoll] Quotations STEVEN KROPKO [compiler] [AA] 
The Conflict in Yugoslavia [AU]
Voluntarism and Colonial Churches ANON
Science and Society PETER ABREHART
Mark Twain Didn’t Care Much For God EDWIN A ROBERTS Jr
The Better World GEORGE WALD
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist DECEMBER 1991
Editoral: About the Bible ANON
Whatever Happened to Gentle Jesus NEIL BLEWITT
The Tree of Lies JANET McCRICKARD
Archbishop Withdraws Comic Relief Support ANON
What is the Object of Life? GRANT ALLEN
From Slave Trading to Sainthood ANON
Saints on Your Doorstep R J CONDON
Thanks For Nothing WILLIAM MCILROY
The Holistic Concept of the Universe SIR JACK HARRIS
A D McLaren: Freethinker and Helper of Men NIGEL H SINNOTT
Religious Fascism in America RICHARD YAO
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist AUGUST 1991
Editorial: The Christian Church and the Animal Kingdom  
Thoughts From David Schneider  
Gaining People, Losing Ground WERNER FORNOS
Robert Tressell: Freethinker RUTH BLEWITT
Religion - Degenerative, Divisive and Murderous JONATHAN STORY
Morals Without Religin MARGARET KNIGHT
Increasing Number of Non-Believers in the World  
A Passage From Mark Twain  
Protons, Electrons, Neutrons, and Morons J W BOUNTER
Students Object to Professor’s Views  
Religion Today  
A Heretic’s Dictionary of Religion ROBERT HOFFMAN
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist APRIL 1991
Editorial: Simple Reasoning  
The Sign of the Cross  
The Bible Story CHARLES P LOWSON
Morality Without God  
Hedi [Abrahams] GLORIA STANFORD
Humanism and Rationalism: A Comparison E J TAPP
Religion and Insanity MADALYN M O’HAIR
Evolution and the Catholic Dilemma [reprint] A. WARWICK DON
The Decline and Fall of Godzone  
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist DECEMBER 1990
Editorial: Alleged Prevalance of Religious Indifference JOHN ALLEN
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor get Poorer [SA]
Christian Science on Trial [AD]
Religion and Myth OWEN SMITH
Is Freethought Just Another Foreign Import BILL COOKE
How Christmas Arose R. SWANN
Magnitude of the Universe R. ESTHER
Frank Sinatra’s Religion [reprint] [P]
Rationalists, Don’t Rationalise [reprint] JULIA TODD FORBES
Gods and Their Makers CHAPMAN COHEN
From A Rationalist Encyclopedia JOSEPH McCABE
Moliere, the Throne and the Altar [ER]
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist JULY 1990
Editorial: Rationalism  
Miracles K M WHITTEN
Freethought and Faith PHYLLIS GRAHAM
God’s Savages [F]
A Different Holy War Rages in the Soviet Union RUPERT CORNWALL
Power and Control: Why Men Dominate Women RICK GOODWIN
The Limits of Reason BILL COOKE
Theosophy MADALYN M. O’HAIR [AA?]
The Sham That Is The Vatican B T MARTIN
Evolution and Human Nature A WARWICK DON
   
New Zealand Rationalist & Humanist MARCH 1990
Editorial: The Olympic Games - A Humanist Festival [F]
The Meaning of Life 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 [F]
It Was a Good Show  

ABBREVIATION REPRINTS

[AA] American Atheist
[AU] Australian Atheist
[AD] The Advertiser
[ER] Ethical Record (South Place Ethical Society, UK)
[F] The Freethinker (National Secular Society, UK)
[NH] New Humanist (Rationalist Press Association, UK)
[P] Playboy
[SA] South Australian Humanist Post


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