For a theist there’s nothing quite like watching an atheist get an intellectual walloping from a preacher. There’s just something apocalyptic about it, and it most easily occurs when the atheist tries ...

In his final New Rule of the night, Bill Maher disputed the idea thrown out by some that atheism is a religion. It’s a refrain you hear from people who can’t stand both groups and believe that dogma ...

No doubt faith is in crisis. But this applies, as is painfully shown in the CNN documentary on American atheism that broadcast last week, to the personal agony of families. Standing back a bit, faith ...

Not all atheists are created equal. Some raise sincere questions; others simply attack. Learn how to respond to both effectively. Sébastien Norblin, “St. Paul in Athens,” 1844 (photo: Public Domain) ...

A Sunday morning in church is not in the cards for those who say they're "beyond belief" -- beyond belief in the God of Scripture, anyway. And for some, the abandonment of their faith wasn't easy. Our ...

In the penultimate chapter of his best-selling book The God Delusion, biologist and world-renowned atheist Richard Dawkins presents his view of religious education, which he explains by way of an ...

The litigation between the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the United States over the parsonage exclusion has taken an odd turn. The Government is trying to convince a couple of atheists who get ...

A federal court in Canada has ruled that the self-titled "Church of Atheism" isn't a religion and can't be treated like one for tax purposes. The Court of Appeal upheld the refusal by the minister of ...

Isaac Newton, a pivotal figure of the Scientific Revolution, made ground breaking discoveries in optics, mechanics, and mathematics. His observations of the solar system, particularly Earth's precise ...

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 ...

David Silverman, the president of American Atheists and author of the new atheist polemic Fighting God, really doesn’t want you to think he’s a dick. Instead, he wants you to think he’s “That Pretty ...

I didn't know what fire and brimstone was until I made a throwaway claim recently during an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher. It seemed pretty unaudacious at the time, but by dropping the ...