NECROLOG

TOM FLYNN

long-standing advocate for the increasingly dated strand of secular humanism exemplified by publications like the , of which he was editor, Tom Flynn has died suddenly aged 66, with the cause of death not announced. Born to a Catholic family, he studied philosophy and theology at the Jesuit Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, but subsequently, while working as a corporate filmmaker and advertising executive, successively renounced first his Catholicism, then his Christianity and finally his belief in any kind of god. He eventually decided he was an atheist in 1980. After a period of voluntary work for the Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism (CODESH) he joined the staff, becoming editor of and eventually Director of the Council for Secular Humanism, as CODESH had renamed itself.