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Requiem for China's One-Child Policy TOM FLYNN: Requiem for China’s One-Child Policy CELEBRATING REASON AND HUMANITY February/March 2016 Vol. 36 No.2 ATHEODICY AND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF GOD Does the Existence of Evil Show That God Can’t Exist? SUSAN JACOBY | STEPHEN LAW | DAVID KOEPSELL JAMES A. METZGER | EDWARD TABASH | SHADIA B. DRURY ANTHONY PINN | JUDY WALKER & TOM FLYNN Greta Christina | Faisal Saeed Al Mutar | Ed Buckner and Mandisa Thomas 80% 1.5 BWR PD F/M 08 Robert M. Price | Edd Doerr | Stephanie Savage 03 Published by the Center for Inquiry in association 7725274 74957 with the Council for Secular Humanism CENTERS FOR INQUIRY | www.centerforinquiry.net/about/branches CFI–SAN FRANCISCO CFI IN PAKISTAN United States Coordinator: Leonard Tramiel Ex. Dir.: Emanuel Enoch CFI EXECUTIVE OFFICES Tel.: (415) 335-4618 [email protected] 1020 19th St. NW, Suite 425 Email: [email protected] CFI IN POLAND (WARSAW) Washington, DC 20036 CFI–TALLAHASSEE Ex. 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Paz y Miño Tel.: (503) 877-2347 Lima, Peru Email: [email protected] The mission of the Center for Inquiry is to foster a secular society based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values. The Center for Inquiry is a supporting organization of the Council for Secular Humanism, publisher of FREE INQUIRY. February/March 2016 Vol. 36 No.2 CELEBRATING REASON AND HUMANITY ATHEODICY AND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF GOD 28 Auschwitz and Evil: My Experience 13 Introduction Growing Up as the Son of a Survivor Tom Flynn Edward Tabash 14 Who’s Afraid of the 32 Why John Hick’s Solution to the Problem of Big Bad Theodicy Riddle? Evil Makes God Monstrous Susan Jacoby Shadia B. Drury 18 Evil God and Mirror Theodicies 36 Is One Person’s Theodicy Another’s Stephen Law Anthropodicy? Preliminary Considerations 21 Evil Gods and Evil Men: Anthony B. Pinn Some Limits in the Debate 40 Epilogue David Koepsell Judy Walker and Tom Flynn 25 Is It Wrong to Accept God’s Gift of Salvation? James A. Metzger EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS REVIEWS 4 China’s One-Child Policy: A Requiem 49 Doerr's Way 64 Move Upstream: A Call to Tom Flynn Public Education under Siege, Part 2 Solve Overpopulation Edd Doerr by Karen I. Shragg Reviewed by Tom Flynn OP-EDS 51 Great Minds 7 A Response to an Almost Good H. L. Mencken: but Limited and Very Troubling Scourge of the Booboisie POEM Argument against Trigger Warnings Dale DeBakcsy 63 An Abandoned Church Greta Christina 55 High Heresy by Stephen Van Eck 8 The Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Trojan Horde Need for Political Solutions Robert Price Faisal Saeed Al Mutar 57 The Humanist Soapbox 9 Should Atheist and Humanist Religion: Private Matter Organizations Broaden Their Purpose? or Public Policy? Ed Buckner and Mandisa Thomas Steve Davidson LOOKING BACK 59 Living Without Religion 11 Sympathy for the Devil-Believers Stephanie Savage LETTERS 61 The Faith I Left Behind 12 A Life of Love, Religion, and Science Gordon E. Hunter Editor Thomas W. Flynn Managing Editor Andrea Szalanski Tom Flynn Editorial Columnists Ophelia Benson, Russell Blackford, Greta Christina, Edd Doerr, Shadia B. Drury, Nat Hentoff, Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, Mark Rubinstein Senior Editors Bill Cooke, Richard Dawkins, Edd Doerr, James A. Haught, Jim Herrick, Ronald A. Lindsay, Taslima Nasrin Contributing Editors Roy P. Fairfield, Charles Faulkner, Levi Fragell, Adolf Grünbaum, China’s One-Child Policy: Marvin Kohl, Lee Nisbet Assistant Editors Julia Lavarnway A Requiem Nicole Scott Literary Editor Cheryl Quimba Permissions Editor Julia Lavarnway Art Director Christopher S. Fix Production Paul E. Loynes Sr. Center for Inquiry Inc. n October 29, 2015, the that the one-child policy prevented 400 Chair Edward Tabash Chinese Communist Party million births. R. Elisabeth Cornwell Board of Directors ended its one-child policy. FREE INQUIRY Senior Editor Vern L. Brian Engler For thirty-six years that pol- Kendrick Frazier O Bullough and his wife, FI Contributing Barry A. Kosmin icy had been the planet’s most aggres- Editor Bonnie Bullough, toured China Leonard Tramiel sive, longest-running campaign against in 1983, just four years after the one- Honorary: Rebecca Newberger overpopulation. It was also a human- child policy began. “We have to admire Goldstein rights nightmare, marked by forced the Chinese for their determination Susan Jacoby to bring their growth rate under con- Lawrence Krauss sterilizations and compulsory abor- tions. Especially in rural areas, women trol,” they wrote in FREE INQUIRY (Winter Chief Executive Officer Ronald A. Lindsay 1983/84). The Bulloughs frankly dis- Director, Campus and Community Programs Debbie Goddard cussed the policy’s dark side but also Director, African Americans recognized the existential danger if for Humanism Debbie Goddard “I mourn the one-child policy’s China did nothing to limit population Director of passing—not because I’m con- growth. “We wish that some of the Development Martina Fern more drastic forms of persuasion did fident it worked but because Director of Libraries Timothy Binga not have to be used,” they concluded, Communications Director Paul Fidalgo of the reasons why China’s “but we have no viable alternatives to Database Manager Jacalyn Mohr Communist leadership appar- recommend.” Reactions to the policy’s suspen- Webmaster Matthew Licata ently abandoned it.” sion have been varied. Joe Bish of the Staff Pat Beauchamp, Ed Beck, Melissa Braun, Shirley Population Media Center commented, Brown, Eric Chinchón, “I imagine many who are concerned Lauren Foster, Roe Giambrone, Nora Hurley, about human overshoot feel this is the Paul Paulin, Michael Rupp, faced immense social pressures and final nail in the global demographic Anthony Santa Lucia, devastating fines if they had a for- Diane Tobin, Vance Vigrass coffin.” Count me among that group. I bidden second or third child. Finally, mourn the one-child policy’s passing— Council for Secular Humanism strong cultural preference for male chil- not because I’m confident it worked Executive Director Thomas W. Flynn dren led to a troubling sex imbalance, but because of the reasons why China’s with as few as 85 girls born per 100 Communist leadership apparently aban- males. That said, China has claimed doned it. I’ll get back to that.
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