Dealt a body blow, atheists and humanists regroup
Source: RNS By Kimberly Winston (RNS) For the last decade, atheists, humanists and others secularists have worked hard to organize a “secular vote” that would counter the political clout of […]
Is God really dead? How Britain lost faith in the church
Source: Religion News Service By Katie Edwards and Meredith J C Warren Is God dead? Fifty years ago, on April 8, 1966, a Time magazine cover asked just that question. […]
Religious People Are Less Smart but Atheists Are Psychopaths
Source: Big Think By Paul Rainer Science and religion are fighting it out in your brain, not just in a metaphorical sense, but in a real, physical altercation. That’s the […]
Nonbelievers sue over Pennsylvania House’s opening prayers
Source: Associated Press By MARK SCOLFORO HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A group of people who don’t believe in God filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday seeking to change how prayers are handled before sessions of the state House of Representatives. The lawsuit in Harrisburg federal court said House officials have […]
Q&A with Khalifatul Maseeh | Why are there more Atheists in the West World?
Source: youtube.com/TrueIslam Question: Why are there more Atheists in the West World? Answered By Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (ra), fourth Caliph of Hazrath Mirz Ghulam ahmad Qadiani (pbuh) who is the Promised Messiah of all Religions / Maseeh-e-Maood wa Mahdi-e-Maood of Muslims Hazrath Mirza ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (as) A video made by Abdul shafi Bharwana, Officially […]
Tackling the Ever Present Question of Suffering from Agnostics’ and Atheists’ Works
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I recently had dinner with a friend of mine, who is an agnostic and is a professor of […]
Christians are becoming a minority compared to atheists in England and Wales
Source: Huffington Post By Jack Sommers; Assistant News Editor, Huffington Post UK New research charts the decline in religious identity. Christians are now outnumbered in England and Wales by atheists, […]
Thousands of atheists gathering in DC for Reason Rally
Source: CNN By Ruby Mellen, CNN Washington (CNN)Bill Nye, Lewis Black and members of the Wu-Tang Clan will be part of a high-profile lineup preaching to a mass of atheists […]
Seven Reasons Why European Agnostics and Atheists Should Consider Islam
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times A recent article in Huffington Post, by Jack Sommers, Assistant News Editor, Huffington Post UK, Christians Outnumbered […]
Beyond Belief: Why Australians don’t go to church, but call upon God in times of crisis
Source: ABC News By Chloe Brant Most Australians claim they believe in God or some kind of “higher power” and yet fewer than one in 10 of us attend church […]
University of Miami Establishes Chair for Study of Atheism
Source: The New York Times By LAURIE GOODSTEIN With an increasing number of Americans leaving religion behind, theUniversity of Miami has received a donation in late April from a wealthy […]
Missing the Sacred: Why This Atheist Came Back to Faith
Source: Huffington Post By Mette Ivie Harrison Mormon in progress, mother of 5, author of ‘The Bishop’s Wife’ and ‘His Right Hand,’ Princeton PhD, All-American triathlete As I sat in church […]
Missing the Sacred: Why This Atheist Came Back to Faith
Source: Huffington Post By Mette Ivie Harrison Mormon in progress, mother of 5, author of ‘The Bishop’s Wife’ and ‘His Right Hand,’ Princeton PhD, All-American triathlete As I sat in church […]
Humanists push for a National Day of Reason
Source: RNS By Kimberly Winston Kimberly Winston is a freelance religion reporter based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She covers atheism and freethought for RNS. (RNS) Not all Americans […]
Bangladeshi university professor hacked to death in Rajshahi
Source: BBC A university professor has been hacked to death in Bangladesh, in an attack police say is similar to killings of secular bloggers and atheists by suspected Islamist extremists. […]
Hopes of Religious Freedom in Former Soviet Union Fall Short
Source: Huffington Post Early in its existence, the Soviet Union turned Vladimir Lenin’s dictum that “religion is the opium of the people” into official policy. Atheism was what Lenin wanted […]
China may be an atheist state, but it’s regulating Buddhist reincarnation
Source: Los Angeles Times In China, it’s not easy to become a “living Buddha.” First come the years of meditation and discipline. Then comes the bureaucracy. “The highest level of […]
Meet the ‘Nones,’ the Democratic Party’s biggest faith constituency
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 […]
Saudi man gets 10 years, 2,000 lashes over atheist tweets
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 […]
Disbelieve it or not, ancient history suggests that atheism is as natural to humans as religion
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 […]
