Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yet our research shows that in the War on Terror, these atheists have been surprisingly willing to align themselves with policies ...

In response to the growing power of religious extremism, a small group of atheists has taken a new approach. Going on the offensive, they target the tolerant, with both reason - and ridicule. Brooke ...

In debates with atheists, Catholic apologists often overlook a key tactical advantage, exemplified in the adage: “First beat your opponent with his own stick, and then beat him with yours.” This means ...

The most monstrous pictures of God come from the Christian tradition just as the most radiant images of God come from what ...

COMMENTARY: Atheism is not only the failure to believe in God, but the failure to believe in one’s self. The fact that the universe is mostly space does not mean that human life is an accidental ...

The most common critique leveled at New Atheists is that we attack only puerile, fundamentalist forms of religion, and never engage with the “best” arguments of the faithful: those adumbrated by ...

The Catholic philosopher (and former atheist) Edward Feser has a great post up discerning among types of atheism, and why the most popular form of atheism today is the worst, most irrational sort.

Religious beliefs are remarkably various. But sometimes it can seem that there is only one way to be an atheist: asserting, on the basis of reasoned argument, that belief in God is irrational. The ...

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 US District Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] on Tuesday rejected [text, PDF] atheist Michael Newdow’s argument that “In God We Trust” violates the US Constitution and ...

In this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, Ricky Gervais wrote a long, non-comedic piece on why he’s an atheist. You’re not going to get many laughs out of it, but it’s a really interesting and ...

Perhaps more people don't identify as atheist because there are so many misconceptions about what it means to be one. All too often, a sentence as simple as "I don't believe in God," is heard as a ...