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 […]
I’m Finally Breaking Up With Richard Dawkins
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 […]
American Atheists suit against Ten Commandments monument advances
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 […]
Atheist seeks removal of ‘God’ from US currency — again
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 […]
Vatican Newspaper Denounces Charlie Hebdo Latest Cover
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 […]
Video: Dawkins on religion: Is religion good or evil?
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 […]
Why Theists Need Atheists; An Atheist’s Perspective
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 […]
A Religious Forecast For 2050: Atheism Is Down, Islam Is Rising
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 […]
Is Secularism Sacred? A Response to Matt Ridley
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 […]
Should Religious Parents Leave Their Kids Alone?
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 […]
