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title: "Ophelia Benson"
date: "2010-10-06T00:00:00+01:00"
modified: "2010-10-06T00:00:00+01:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/contributors/ophelia-benson/"
post_id: 3687
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# Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson is a writer and editor of the secular website Butterflies and Wheels. She is a columnist for Free Inquiry and The Philosophers’ Magazine, where she was formerly an associate editor, and she has co-authored (with Jeremy Stangroom) several books, including  The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense (Souvenir Press, 2004), Why Truth Matters (Continuum, 2007), and Does God Hate Women? (Continuum, 2009).