Atheism is commonly defined as the absence of belief in God or gods, but research reveals that nonbelief is far more complicated than the public image created by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago, Richard Dawkins published his international best-seller The God Delusion, thus establishing “New Atheism” as a major cultural force. Over the ensuing decade, other authors – such as ...

Not long ago, I gave an interview in which I said that my biggest problem with so-called New Atheists like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins is that they give atheism a bad name. Almost immediately, I ...

Skepticism is a way station on the way to a higher, more fulfilling kind of spirituality, he says No doubt faith is in crisis. But this applies, as is painfully shown in the CNN documentary on ...

Is atheism simply an idea, or is it a worldview like the religions that it is supposed to replace? On the one hand, atheists typically make a claim about the world—that there is no God—and many of ...

House Republican lawmakers on Wednesday accused the State Department of engaging in a “pattern of obfuscation and denial” as it used taxpayer money to promote atheism overseas. At issue is a $500,000 ...

O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God. American faith ...

A newly published book argues that a significant part of the public wrongly sees scientists who are atheists as immoral elitists who don't care about the common good. Misconceptions and distrust of ...

Atheism is so often considered in the negative: as a lack of faith, or a disbelief in god; as an essential deprivation. Atheism is seen as being destitute of meaning, value, purpose; unfertile ground ...

Louis J. Appignani, an 84-year-old living in Florida, tells a compelling story about his conversion to atheism. Despite attending Catholic schools from a young age and through his teens, he didn’t ...