Atheism News

We've all heard the standard Christian response if we are treated disrespectfully or hurtfully: 'turn the other cheek.' What's more, we are to pray for our offenders.

A judge has just ruled that green beliefs should be safeguarded under employment law designed to protect religious and philosophical beliefs in the workplace.

A month ago, when this column traced the argument of a book with the intriguing title of " Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian," it was tempting to mention another recent book.

Dinesh D'Souza loves to debate the big names in the new atheism such as Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.

Admit cheating or risk eternal damnation: That's the choice students were given in one MTSU professor's course recently.

Attacking Christians is not really clever, witty or funny. F ROM time immemorial, this world has been troubled by plagues.

Massimo Pigliucci argues that atheism is philosophical, not scientific. Jerry Coyne differs : I'll call "weak sense atheism" the position that, I think, most atheists hold.

Are there some words of thanks that you and yours intone before eating? And what would a good secular grace sound like? A family saying grace at Thanksgiving.

C.S. Lewis is often described as an "apostle" to the skeptics - that he somehow has a special affinity for the arguments, sensibilities, and perspectives of religious doubters and can therefore more easily reach them than other apologists.

Josh had a very good post yesterday , and not only because it defended us from some ongoing misrepresentations.

By Op Rana The ads are written simply on a background of blue sky with nebulous clouds, say news agency reports.

A controversial new ad campaign hitting "The Hub" is encouraging people to "stop believing." Ads promoting atheism are showing up on many Boston MBTA trains and some commuters are wondering if they go too far.

Middle Eastern nations are, with great justification, associated very closely with Islam and Islamic nationalism.

Does spirituality bridge the gap between religious dogma and atheism? Is it the golden mean between an all powerful dictatorial super being that creates good and evil, demands sacrifice and unquestioning obedience and the totally mechanistic belief of the atheist? Can the two even be reconciled? We are all familiar with religious dogma.

A federal trial began today to determine if school students can read and discuss the Bible during recess time.

Are you good without God? That's the question ads, plastered on the walls of a dozen subways stations, are asking straphangers.

A flurry of books bashing religion are making best-seller lists and grabbing a lot of attention a ' so much so that anti-religion publications seem to have become a lucrative genre all their own.

The so-called "new" atheists are only "new" in terms of their popularity and the amount of general popular attention they get -- a strong testimony to the effectiveness of their approach, all the criticisms notwithstanding.

An advertisement sponsored by a coalition of eight New York City atheist and secularist groups will appear in 12 major Manhattan subway stations starting Monday.

The ads are written simply on a background of blue sky with nebulous clouds, say news agency reports.