Tom Flynn is Executive Director of The Council for Secular Humanism,
Editor of Free Inquiry magazine, Director of Inquiry Media
Productions, and Director of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace
Museum.


A journalist, novelist, entertainer, and freethought historian, Flynn is
the author of numerous articles and editorials for Free Inquiry
magazine. In addition to The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, his
books include two black comedy science fiction novels, Nothing Sacred,
its prequel Galactic Rapture, and The Trouble With Christmas,
a secularist critique of the holiday. He has made hundreds of radio and
TV appearances in his role as the curmudgeonly "anti-Claus."


In this conversation with Robert Price, Tom explains how he transitioned
from his conservative Catholic youth Secular Humanist he is today. He talks about the part Mormonism played in his
transition to non-belief. Perhaps one of the most consistent secularists
around today, Tom elaborates on the problems he has with rites of
passage ceremonies and marriage. He talks about what he sees as
problems with some secular charity programs and the parts of life he believes should
be off-limits to a secular community. Finally, he and Price discuss
radical Islam and how we should approach talking about it.