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in 2009 as yet another branch of the umbrella group, the Center for
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announced the establishment of the Paul Kurtz
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explanation for the persistence of the paranormal, I submit, is due to the transcendental temptation. In my book by that name, I present the thesis that paranormal and religious phenomena have similar functions in human experience; they are expressions of a tendency to accept
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American. He did a lot to expand IHEU as a member of the IHEU Growth and Development Committee (with
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as being the culmination of a years-long "leadership transition", thanking him "for his decades of service" while also alluding to "concerns about Dr. Kurtz's day-to-day management of the organization". Kurtz renewed his efforts in organized humanism by founding The
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Council of Secular Humanism's Los Angeles conference (October 7–10, 2010), tension over the future of humanism was on display as Kurtz urged a more accommodationist approach to religion while his successors argued for a more adversarial approach.
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university, where he taught from 1965 to 1991, to help promote the development of critical intelligence in future generations of SUNY at
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1591:"CFI Board accepts Paul Kurtz's resignation"
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