The stigma of being an atheist in the US
Source: BBC By Aleem Maqbool, BBC News, Columbus, Ohio Atheists in the US are rallying together, launching a new TV programme and providing support for those who go public with their […]
Prophecies related to the coming of The Promised Messiah & The Mahdi of Muslims
The Truth Message – Part – 5.1: Prophecies about The Promised Messiah & The Mahdi of Muslims Al Imam Al Mahdi — The title given to the Promised Reformer, Messiah & Prophet of the later days by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw) – it means the guided leader. Hadhrat — […]
Atheist to deliver invocation in New York town that won prayer ruling
theguardian — Community of Greece won US supreme court ruling which upheld its right to open town meetings with a prayer An atheist is set to deliver the invocation in a western New York community whose town board won a US supreme court decision upholding its right to open meetings with a […]
Christianity, Islam and Atheism
Epigraph: And when thy Lord brings forth from Adam’s children — out of their loins — their offspring and makes them witnesses against their own selves by saying: ‘Am I […]
Why there is Something and Not Nothing: Does Evolution Explain Religious Beliefs?
Epigraph: He is the First and the Last, and the Manifest and the Hidden, and He knows all things full well. (Al Quran 57:4) Source: New York Times This is […]
The sad business of trying to disprove God
By Charles Moore The Telegraph: You often meet them for the first time at secondary school. The typical teenage atheist is more likely a boy than a girl, stronger on […]
There's no such thing as an atheist baby
Source: The Guardian By Andrew Brown Richard Dawkins’ implication that babies have a default theological position of atheism is as silly as assuming a default language or nationality Richard Dawkins’s […]
There’s no such thing as an atheist baby
Source: The Guardian By Andrew Brown Richard Dawkins’ implication that babies have a default theological position of atheism is as silly as assuming a default language or nationality Richard Dawkins’s […]
Richard Dawkins's lack of sympathy for those who cling to religion is a shame
theguardian: by Deborah Orr — Not content with being a mere anti-Christ, Richard Dawkins has now declared himself to be the anti-Santa. (As Dougal from Father Ted would put it.) Dawkins has also informed an audience at the Cheltenham literary festival that a frog couldn’t become a prince, not in a million years. Sometimes I wonder […]
Richard Dawkins’s lack of sympathy for those who cling to religion is a shame
theguardian: by Deborah Orr — Not content with being a mere anti-Christ, Richard Dawkins has now declared himself to be the anti-Santa. (As Dougal from Father Ted would put it.) Dawkins has also informed an audience at the Cheltenham literary festival that a frog couldn’t become a prince, not in a million years. Sometimes I wonder […]
Atheists didn’t fail to expel God from schools. They proved they are a religion
theguardian: by Andrew Brown — It’s always amusing for an outsider to see the way in which Americans treat their constitutional documents as a sacred text, and then the knots into which they get tied when said sacred text seems to forbid taking any text as sacred. The separation of […]
Video: The Transcendent God of Abrahamic Faiths Does Exist: The Kalam Cosmological Argument
Epigraph: He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is […]
The Transcendent God of Abrahamic Faiths Does Exist: The Kalam Cosmological Argument
Epigraph: He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is […]
In Islam, there’s more than one way to be an ‘atheist’
theguardian: by Nesrine Malik — Just as Muslims need to expand tolerance for non-belief into the public sphere by challenging the structures that define this space, westerners energised by the ex-Muslim’s fate need to see that there is more than one model of not believing in God. Saudi Arabia recently declared […]
How Hatred of Islam Creates Strange Bedfellows of Christians and Atheists
San Diego Free Press: by C. J. Werleman — Chris Hedges, who not only spent a decade as a New York Times correspondent in the Middle East, but was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of global terrorism, writes, “The dehumanization of Muslims in U.S. social culture and the […]
Worldwide, Many See Belief in God as Essential to Morality – Richer Nations Are Exception
Survey Report Many people around the world think it is necessary to believe in God to be a moral person, according to surveys in 40 countries by the Pew Research Center. However, this view is more common in poorer countries than in wealthier ones. In 22 of the 40 countries […]
George Herbert: the man who converted me from atheism
theguardian: by Miranda Threlfall-Holmes — I blame George Herbert for me becoming a Christian. I first encountered Herbert’s poems at the very beginning of the lower sixth, when they were a set text for my A-level English class. Being the rather keen and serious teenager that I was, I read them that […]
Atheism is an offshoot of deism
theguardian: by Theo Hobson — In the previous article, I considered Rousseau’s political radicalism, at some speed. I want to offer a summarizing reflection on that theme, before moving on to his religious thought. Political justice, said Rousseau, depends on an understanding that state power belongs to the people, exists to […]
My Story- Mount Royal University Students sharing Stories of Faith
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What purpose organised atheism?
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 […]
