Popular ambassadors of freethought.(The Culture War) The Humanist | November 1, 2004| | COPYRIGHT 2004 American Humanist Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

freethinkers are always happy to discover like minds engaged in free inquiry in an otherwise unthinking society. But there's nothing quite as vindicating as those occasions when famous people have the audacity to raise their voices and speak freely about their aversion to organized religion.

As a journalist, interviewing as many as one hundred musicians every year, I'm always amazed at the number of artists who do just that. In a country where more than 70 percent of the people consider themselves Christian, the number of freethinking musicians seems to level the ...

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