Source: The Washington Post Joe Stone is part of an enormous but invisible voting constituency. A “troubled atheist,” the retired Virginia accountant calls himself spiritual, celebrates Christmas and defines religious […]
Source: Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism in hundreds of Twitter posts. Al-Watan online daily said Saturday that religious police in charge of monitoring social networks found […]
Source: University of Cambridge People in the ancient world did not always believe in the gods, a new study suggests – casting doubt on the idea that religious belief is […]
Source: Huffington Post By Chris Sosa Campaign Manager, Political Commentator I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m done with Richard Dawkins. As a teenager, the brilliant scientist was among the […]
Source: RNS (RNS) A lawsuit brought by American Atheists seeking the erection of an “atheist monument” near a Ten Commandments monument at a Florida county courthouse has gotten the go-ahead from a federal court judge. American Atheists, a national advocacy organization based in Cranford, N.J., has tried to put a […]
Source: RNS (RNS) A California atheist who once argued against the Pledge of Allegiance before the Supreme Court has launched a federal legal challenge to the phrase “In God We […]
REUTERS – The Vatican newspaper has criticized French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo for depicting God as a Kalashnikov-carrying killer, saying it was “woeful” and disrespectful to true believers of all faiths. The cover was an anniversary edition, commemorating the attacks a year ago when Islamist militants killed 12 during an […]
For the Muslim Times’ collection on Religion & Science, please click here With the headlines covering fanaticism, fundamentalism, superstition and ignorance, religion is getting a bad press these days. And […]
Source: Huffington Post By Mette Ivie Harrison; Mormon in progress, former atheist, mother of 5, author of ‘The Bishop’s Wife,’ Princeton PhD I spent about five years as an atheist. I […]
Source: NPR By the end of the century, Muslims could outnumber Christians for the first time in history, according to a report released by the Pew Research Center. “Another way of […]
Source: End of Atheism By Ayesha Malik. Reposted with permission from An Eternity of Discourse. In his recent piece in The Times, Matt Ridley speaks of how Muslims are “turning […]
http://endofatheism.com: Religion is a hot topic these days, with Daesh prompting right-wing commentators and New Atheist activists to renew their criticism of religion in general, and Islam in particular. I spied last week a tweet (below) from one such critic Maryam Namazie, which mentioned religion being ‘imposed’ on children. It […]
Post originally made by Dr. Falak Rahman Source: The Guardian: By Ijeoma Oluo, who is a Seattle based writer and internet yeller. Her work on feminism and social justice has been […]
Source: The National Post TORONTO — A Richmond Hill, Ont., high school teacher connected to a series of anti-Islam tweets and a blog post discussing his desire to impose atheism […]
Jonathan Butterworth at Annual Convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Jalsa Salana), UK 2015. Video: How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee Epigraph: The Originator of […]
Epigraph: Who has created seven heavens in harmony. No incongruity canst thou see in the creation of the Gracious God. Then look again: Seest thou any flaw? Aye, look again, […]
http://embed.live.huffingtonpost.com/HPLEmbedPlayer/?segmentId=55b2c87502a760275e000600&autoPlay=false Award-winning actress and producer Salma Hayek joins a special #WMN to discuss her animated feature film “Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet,” based on Gibran’s best-selling poetry book of the same […]
Source: Huffington Post By Gary Laderman; Chair of the Department of Religion, Emory University and Editor of Sacred Matters Magazine It’s not easy being chair of a religion department. August is […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Kashif N. Chaudhry; Physician, writer and human rights activist I recently wrote a blog post demonstrating no conflict exists between science and faith. The perceived conflict […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times First something about the big picture, Christian apologists want to make a case for Christianity based on laws […]