Facing a Fraught Future | Free Inquiry
As I write this, President-Elect Joe Biden has not received his first White House security briefing. When you read these words, Biden will be the president—which will leave many atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, and freethinkers little short of ecstatic. But not so fast. For all that a Biden administration will mark a huge step toward normalcy after the chaos, cruelty, and willful ignorance of the Trump years, secular Americans may yet find President Biden a (pardon the expression) mixed blessing. A devout Roman Catholic, Biden delivered an acceptance speech steeped in religious langu...