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May 2014

May 07, 2014

Two conservative atheists

Being a Christian is not the same as being a conservative, and being a conservative...

April 2014

April 18, 2014

Even secular humanism depends on Christianity

Theo Hobson, in the British Spectator, critiques the New Atheist insistence that we can have...

January 2014

January 14, 2014

Satanism is having a Reformation

The group that is trying to erect a statue of Baphomet next to the Ten...

January 06, 2014

Schism in the atheist church, already

The atheist church we've blogged about, the Sunday Assembly, has split over doctrinal issues, worship...

October 2013

October 02, 2013

Is the Pope Catholic?

Pope Francis has done another interview: Pope Francis cranked up his charm offensive on the...

May 2013

May 24, 2013

Pope says atheists can be saved

Pope Francis preached a homily in which he pretty much said that atheists too can...

May 09, 2013

The world’s worst violators of religious freedom

The worst countries for religious freedom are either Muslim or atheist. (Burma is Buddhist.) We...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

Atheists want to participate in interfaith services

Atheists in Boston are complaining that they haven't been invited to participate in the interfaith...

March 2013

March 15, 2013

Different kinds of atheists

John Gray, author of The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths, is...

November 2012

November 26, 2012

If materialism is wrong, what can replace it?

Alvin Plantinga is surely one of the best living philosophers. He is also an evangelical...

October 2012

October 11, 2012

The "nones" as hyper-Protestants?

More from that Pew study of Americans who are unaffiliated with any religion. It turns...

September 2012

September 21, 2012

Plantinga on Science, Naturalism, and Faith

Alvin Plantinga is a highly-respected philosopher, respected even by those who disagree with him. An...

August 2012

August 15, 2012

The new new atheists

The old atheists deny that God exists. The new atheists deny that God is good...

July 2012

July 18, 2012

Atheists’ sexual harassment problem

A controversy roiling in the atheist community is the prevalence of sexual harassment and its...

June 2012

June 22, 2012

Moving an atheism blog

Leah Libresco has been running one of the atheism blogs at the pan-religion site Patheos,...

May 2012

May 22, 2012

Stalin’s five-year-plan for atheism

Eighty years ago on this day, May 22, 1932, Josef Stalin began his program to...

April 2012

April 11, 2012

How to deal with Christian-baiting

Well-played, San Antonio Christians! You basically ignored this, making the atheists look bad! A small...

February 2012

February 07, 2012

Has Castro become a Christian?

George Conger reports stories in the Italian press that Fidel Castro, the communist dictator of...

December 2011

December 21, 2011

The true contrarian

Aaron Lewis, who hung out a couple of times with Christopher Hitchens, pointed out that...

December 19, 2011

The death of Christians’ favorite atheist

Christopher Hitchens, one of the "new atheists," has died of cancer at age 62. An iconoclast...

November 2011

November 29, 2011

Courthouse Christmas displays gone mad

Christmas time is here, so it must be time for controversies over Christmas displays at...

September 2011

September 02, 2011

Party our way into extinction!

People who oppose abortion like to call themselves "pro-life." Proponents of abortion object to that term,...

August 2011

August 29, 2011

Questions for secularists

New York Times editor Bill Keller came up with a series of questions about religion...

July 2011

July 28, 2011

Church camp for atheists

Atheists are seemingly doing everything they can to organize themselves into a religion. Apparently they...

July 06, 2011

Atheocracy

Denver bishop James D. Conley offers a potentially useful new word: In our day, those...

June 2011

June 07, 2011

And now an atheist college

So how will this be different from regular colleges? Famed atheist Richard Dawkins will be...

May 2011

May 05, 2011

Happy National Day of Reason!

In their attempt to become, in effect, a socially-acceptable religion--getting military chaplains, vaunting how moral...

May 03, 2011

Equal rights for atheists

We have had movements for equal rights for African-Americans, women, gays. The next victimized, discriminated...

April 2011

April 28, 2011

Atheist chaplains

There apparently ARE atheists in foxholes, and they are demanding their own chaplains. From the...

January 2011

January 13, 2011

Anger at God leads to atheism

Joe Carter reports on a study that shows that atheists are angry at a God...