Tom Flynn

Tom Flynn is Editor of Free Inquiry magazine, Special Projects Director at the Center for Inquiry International, a Senior Director of Inquiry Media Productions, and Director of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum. In addition, he was founding coeditor of Secular Humanist Bulletin, now edited by Ed Buckner, and founded by the Council for Secular Humanism's First Amendment Task Force, chaired by Ed Tabash.

Mr. Flynn graduated Xavier University in 1977 with a B.S. in Communications. A journalist, novelist, entertainer, and self-taught folklorist, Flynn is the author of numerous articles for Free Inquiry magazine, many addressing church-state issues, as well as The Trouble With Christmas (Prometheus 1993), and has made hundreds of radio and TV appearances in his role as the curmudgeonly "anti-Claus." His anti-religious black comedy science fiction novel, Galactic Rapture, was published by Prometheus Books in January 2000.

Expertise:
- Current church-state issues
- Critiques of religion in science fiction
- History and politics of Christmas
- Civil rights of the nonreligious
- History of freethought, atheism, and humanism
- History of Mormonism

Debate Topics:
- Humanism: secular or religious?
- Is humanism socially harmful?
- Secularism vs. Civil Religion
- Existence of God
- Did the Resurrection occur?
- Did Jesus exist?

The above information was taken from the Campus Freethought Alliance home page.

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