Organized religion’s shallowest critics made the mistake of blasting Islam along with Christianity, and the Left crucified them for it. On Friday, it became official: The New Atheists are no longer ...

Celebrity atheists such as Richard Dawkins appear to claim the moral high ground when it comes to violence. Dawkins, along with Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens, insist that because ...

Bence Nanay receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) and the Flemish Research Organisation (FWO). The new atheists are a diverse bunch. Philosophers, scientists, “public intellectuals ...

IT IS just over a decade since Richard Dawkins lit the blue touchpaper with his book The God Delusion. It introduced much of the world to the so-called new atheism – a forceful rejection of religion ...

In the shadow of 9/11 and the Bush years, a movement of public intellectuals, bloggers and YouTubers arose concerned with what they perceived as a rise in fundamentalism. They were perturbed by both ...

Is the renewed influence of religion in public life a threat to reason and science? That's the conviction of some nonbelievers aggressively advocating Atheism. We hear the latest version of an ancient ...

H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Series, ed., Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 174-78. H. L. Mencken, The Days ...

A few pokes have made the structure wobble and sway, and if enough of us get together, we could push it all right over. ~Pharyngula Yes, it’s not because atheist diatribes are feebly argued and ...

For many years I taught an introductory theology course for undergraduates titled “The Problem of God.” My fellow instructors and I were convinced that our students should be exposed to the most ...

(RNS) The freshly signed Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act is being heralded by both atheists and Christians as a milestone. (RNS) When President Obama signed a newly strengthened ...

Proselytizers of atheism seem to have concluded that if they’re big enough jerks, they will seduce the faithful into abandoning God. It’s sort of like asking Don Rickles to run your customer-service ...

Atheists have always been a minority. Religious minorities are frequently in an awkward position, particularly when the majority considers their very existence to be a challenge. So atheists have ...