theguardian — Zoe Williams says that if you place religious belief on the human rights agenda then you have to allow atheism equal weight (Comment, 15 January). It would be better to simply place “religious belief or non-belief” on the agenda. This is because the term “atheist” is freighted with much excess […]
Source: The Telegraph By Alice Philipson Katharine Welby revealed that church is where she feels at her ‘worst’ during her battle with depression Katharine Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s daughter, has […]
Huff Post — Though the Sunday Assembly “atheist church” was founded just last year bycomedians Pippa Evans and Sanderson Jones, it expanded quickly from just one London congregation to 28 in cities around the world. Perhaps then, it isn’t so surprising that its dynamism has now led to a schism […]
ABC News: by Justine Toh — Such a world may set the stage for remarkable feats of human endeavour but it endlessly frustrates the inevitable questions of human existence (how are we here? why are we here? why does anything exist at all?) that the silence of space can only […]
Epigraph: And He (Allah) gave you all that you wanted of Him; and if you try to count the favors of Allah, you will not be able to number them. Indeed, man […]
View Data on more than 200 countries: by clicking here The Future of the Global Muslim Population The world’s Muslim population is expected to increase by about 35% in the next 20 years, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030, according to new population projections by the […]
The Truth Message – Part – 5.3: A Conclusion to the Prophecies about The Promised Messiah So, where we we? Oh yes, we started with prophecies which mention the coming […]
Source: The Independcnce BY MICHAEL DAY, THE INDEPENDENT In comments likely to enhance his progressive reputation, Pope Francis has written a long, open letter to the founder of La Repubblica […]
The Muslim Times’ has slightly modified the title to Why are millennials leaving church? Try Islam before Atheism. The original title was: Why are millennials leaving church? Try atheism. Most of the […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD William Lane Craig is one of the foremost Christian apologists, enjoying tremendous following among the Protestant Christians in USA and UK. William […]
The Washington Post: By Michelle Boorstein, Each morning and night, Sigfried Gold drops to his knees on the beige carpeting of his bedroom, lowers his forehead to the floor and […]
theguardian: by Matthew Engelke. Those of us with no faith have a lot to learn about the value of halting the normal rhythms of life and stopping to reflect Earlier this week I attended the national parliamentary prayer breakfast, which takes place each June in the magnificent surrounds of Westminster […]
Huff Post: by Chris Stedman. “I’m actually an atheist.” And then she added: “You know, I don’t blame anybody for thanking the Lord.” In a couple of short sentences, Vitsmun delivered two equally powerful messages: that she was not embarrassed by her atheism, and that she respected her religious friends […]
Epigraph: “And when thy Lord brings forth offspring from the loins of the sons of Adam, He makes them witnesses against their own selves by asking them, ‘Am I not […]
Epigraph: “The God of Islam is the same God Who is visible in the reflection of the laws of nature and is discernible in the book of nature. Islam has […]
Collected by Zia H. Shah MD – Twitter: @ZiahShah1 My Prologue for every recent debate, between the Trinitarian Christians and atheists: Christian apologists want to make a case for Christianity based […]
Michael Shermer makes a fairly provocative yet a correct statement, in my opinion, in the middle of a recent debate: I have a problem with resurrection. So, you believe that […]
Source: Huff Post, by David Lose. Before you dismiss the question out of hand, consider these four inter-related bits of evidence: 1) As recently reported in the New York Times, military personnel who identify themselves as “Atheists” have requested chaplains to tend to their spiritual needs. As the Times article notes, “Defense Department statistics […]
Source: Huff Post, by Akash Arasu. Recent times have seen an increasing trend in non-affiliation to religion in many parts of the world — in the United States there’s been an increase of nearly 5 percentage points in the past five years. Coupled with this, there has been an increase in atheism, dubbed “New […]
Source: Politics & Religion, by Qasim Rashid and Chris Stedman. Let’s look at atheists and Muslims. Or, in this case, one atheist and one Muslim. As members of minority communities in the United States, the two of us recognize that true freedom can only exist when it is rooted in […]