God, Cruelty and Death by Gustavo Flores Quelopana (Instituto por la Paz, la Cultura y la Integración de América Latina)
This writing has the following parts: 1) Nietzsche, Unamuno and the God's problem (It is a imaginary dialogue); 2) God and man's heart (In a world without injustices and fears we shall be able to live without the idea of God); 3) God and the animal faith (a very short review of the Ontological Arguments of God's Exist- ence); 4) Devil's children.

The Moral Function of Religion by Paul Kurtz (Council for Secular Humanism)
Belief in the Trascendental persists in spite of the Modern criticisms. It provides people with behaviour rules and norms -on sex, reproduction, family, taboos and phobias- and has an impor- tant role in culture, health and the fight of supervival. However another event happened in the human history: the emergence of a philosophical ethics without religion and moral customms, that is, it based in reason.

To be or not to be Christian by Manuel A. Paz y Mino (Universidad Nacional de San Marcos)
It is a short criticism of the Christian religion, the Bible and specially Jesus Christ and his moral teachings.

Desacrelization, Atheism and Indifference by Miguel Polo (Universidad Nacional de San Marcos)
In those three phenomena we can have an intuition of the sacred one, then they are not excluded among themselves.

On Wittgenstein and the Religious one by Andres Tornos (Universidad Comillas)
It has four parts: 1) Wittgwenstein's religious texts in The Intime Diaries; 2) His religious texts in The Philosophical Diaries; 3) Towards another way to think the logics of religion in him; and 4) His epistemological position on the religious language.

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