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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Atheism is hardly a new philosophical position in the history of the human race. As long as religious people have affirmed the existence of a god, other, more skeptical people have felt compelled to ...

Boghossian is a full faculty member in Portland State University’s philosophy department. Lindsay is the author of three books, including Everybody Is Wrong About God. Torres is a contributing writer ...

My colleague Carmel Richardson wrote: “[Richard] Dawkins is right to recognize that it is better to belong to a Christian nation than to any other sort of nation. Indeed, much of his own worldview, ...

(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 ...

When President Obama signed a newly strengthened international religious freedom act in December, the intention was to protect religious believers around the world. But the freshly signed act is being ...