Is atheism simply an idea, or is it a worldview like the religions that it is supposed to replace? On the one hand, atheists typically make a claim about the world—that there is no God—and many of ...

The situation where adherence to a religious tradition becomes not only optional, but also often strangely alienating, profoundly modifies the experience of the believer, as much as it does that of ...

Louis J. Appignani, an 84-year-old living in Florida, tells a compelling story about his conversion to atheism. Despite attending Catholic schools from a young age and through his teens, he didn’t ...

I RECENTLY discovered that I am a member of a downtrodden minority, one of the most mistrusted and discriminated-against in the world. As a white, heterosexual, able-bodied, cis-gender male, this is ...

The fight between New Atheism and religious extremism is futile, for both are rigid in their outlooks and blind to social injustices. Political atheism is a radical alternative rooted in a broader ...

In his entertaining and at times troubling new book Seven Types of Atheism, John Gray describes the scene in the University of Berlin in 1820s where Arthur Schopenhauer scheduled his lectures to ...

Because New Atheism was born in battle, it has developed a contempt for all who refuse to join it. This is inappropriate for the demilitarised space of liberal politics, dependent on mutual civility.

What we’ll share with you can help you reflect on your own opinions about religious ideas and be better prepared not to assume others are, or are not, religious without getting to know them first. It ...

Now that the world is becoming one big melting pot, secularism and atheism are sweeping the globe as a marked feature in most nations. The trend of atheism-the lack of belief in a deity-is ...

It is a basic tenet of psychology that we are “meaning making machines.” This claim is frequently validated by children, for they are incessantly asking “why”? It is insufficient to simply know what a ...