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Dan Arel

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Dan Arel is the author of Parenting Without God and The Secular Activist. After years writing on religion and politics for outlets including AlterNet, Salon, TIME, and HuffPost, he shifted his focus to labor organizing and now serves as Director of Communications for a labor union.

His work today sits at the intersection of politics, organizing, and practical self-development—especially how to cultivate mental health, clarity, and resilience outside the churn of trends and fads, by learning to be present and intentional in everyday life.

Though his writing on religion has, for now, come to a close, Arel remains deeply engaged in the craft. New books are in progress, continuing his exploration of power, purpose, and how people can live and act
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“My goal in changing how the world thinks about religion is not to make people stop believing in a god or gods; I care little for what people desire to believe in their own private lives. However, I care deeply about what they do with those beliefs. If their religious beliefs teach intolerance and hatred, are used to support war, genocide, female genital mutilation, honor killings or laws that protect or honor such rituals or beliefs, then we have a problem and I will stand up against every such instance and fight it with every means available to me.”
Dan Arel, Parenting Without God: how to raise moral, ethical and intelligent children, free from religious dogma

“Parents must teach their kids about questioning assumption and social norms, showing their kids how to think critically and be skeptical of claims that sound too good to be true.”
Dan Arel, Parenting Without God: how to raise moral, ethical and intelligent children, free from religious dogma

“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered forms, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation, distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away; all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life and his relations with his kind.”
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”
Carl Sagan

“There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.”
Ernesto Che Guevara

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”
Che Guevara

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