Primrose Road

JBooks.com has a page on secular culture worth checking out. The site includes articles written from both new-school-atheist humanist and older-generation Marxist points of view.

For me, the humanist/Enlightenment side's a bit problematic as usual. See, for example, a rewrite of Echad Mi Yodea -- "Who Knows One?":

"Q. Who knows One?
A. One? I know One. One is the Flame of Enlightenment, which gives light for people all over the world."

Which implies, though not overtly and most likely not intentionally, that those who developed philosophical enlightenment are the ones able to "give light" to "people all over the world." Therein lies the problem with the current wave of atheist thinking, I suppose. Smart in its complete rejection of the supernatural, but philosophically problematic.

But it's helpful in any case to offer young Jewish people ways of seeing their culture without the involvement of the supernatural.