Forbidden Fruit

An appropriate challenge to current trends in religion and politics. - BooklistThe basic message of this book is that secular humanism is reasonable because it does not involve any superstitions; it is practicable because it coincides with common decency; and it promotes harmony because it does not divide society into pure us and evil them.Kurtz's arguments are so cogent his definitions so clear and his examples so close to everyday life that this book could be used as a textbook in introductory ethics courses wherever state and church are separate.- Mario Bunge FRSC Frothingham Professor of Logic and Metaphysics McGill University Montreal Canada