J. H. McKenna

J. H. McKenna

Professor of the history of religious ideas at the University of California Irvine.

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In the year 2525: Beyond trivial divisions

One of the less tangible changes over time may be in the ways we categorize each other.

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The end of the world is not what you think

Reading Time: 3 minutes Every year of the calendar, for ages and ages, up to and including this year, religious people have believed the end of the world is coming soon. But the end never comes. I would evince a high degree of vanity to think the end of the world will occur in my life span. The whol

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The fellowship of the living

As humanists, we should completely reject age as an artificial segregation of humanity. A deep future view can help.

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What might 100,000 more years of evolution do for the future of morality?

Reading Time: 2 minutes It was a bawdy planet for hundreds of millions of years; the whole of it reeked of sex without a whiff of morals in the air. Then, rather late in the day, a mere several thousand years ago, humans began offering moral codes recommending ‘licit’ sexual expression. But humans f