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 […]
Huff Post: Surveys have frequently shown that the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans — including but not limited to atheists, agnostics and people who are spiritual but not religious — are increasing, with there being about one in five people who now claim no religion. A new survey from the Pew Research Center has […]
Huff Post: Rabbi Alan Lurie. Few topics are more contentious than religion. Our culture has been so deeply immersed in religion for so long that we can’t avoid its presence and its influence, and therefore we all seem to have strong opinions — whether in defense of our own religion, […]
Huff Post: by Bob Christie. “This is the United States, this is America, and we all represent different people … and you need to respect that. Your God is no more powerful than my God. We all come from the same creator.” “When there’s a time set aside to pray […]
Huff Post: by Dianne Butler Bass. Over the last year, it has become increasingly clear that there are two significant cultural forces reshaping the religious future: 1) the rise of the “unaffiliateds,” including atheists, agnostics, humanists, “spiritual but not religious” and post-theists; and 2) the rise of religious pluralism and […]
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: Huff Post, by Peter Rollins. The common reason why people think unbelief is problematic is because it stands in opposition to belief, that unbelief is a stance that prevents us frombelieving. However the problem with unbelief lies precisely in the opposing position: namely, unbelief is required in order to support […]
theguardian: Jamie Doward and Ella Fraser-Thoms. Humanist association wins campaign to recognise many recruits are non-believers. One of the UK’s largest and most respected youth organisations will no longer compel its new members to take a religious oath. In a move that delighted the British Humanist Association (BHA), the Air […]