Once upon a time, not so long ago, atheism was the belief system that dared not speak its name. Even the most ardent skeptic paid lip service to faith, or at least to the blessings that mankind ...
We’re calling atheism a “traditional view” because there have always been people who doubted the existence of God, even in ancient times. To be an atheist means a person does not believe in God.
In these conversations with patients who are wary of religion, Callahan slips in another detail: He’s an atheist himself. Callahan is one of a growing number of openly atheist chaplains working ...
The heyday of the new atheism in Western life, when anti-God tracts by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens bestrode best-seller lists, did not arrive because brilliant new arguments for God ...
It has been not-quite-a-year since I began saying Kaddish for my father – a reasonable thing to do as a Jew, but perhaps a puzzling thing to do as an atheist. I am both. So what does it mean to ...
I have an issue with the logic and goals of contemporary atheism despite not being a theist myself. I believe it can be stubbornly unproductive and anti-intellectual, though well-intentioned. This ...