Anxiety about the threat of atheism was rampant in the early modern period, yet fully documented examples of openly expressed irreligious opinion are surprisingly rare. England and Scotland saw only a ...

and scientifically impossible claims in the Bible that atheists point to as evidence it is merely an antiquated book written by primitive men, not the divine word of God. How can the source ...

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 ...

Do you believe in God? This irreverent animation introduces the topics of Atheism and Humanism. Atheists are described as people who do not need religious explanations or the promise of an ...

Although atheism is often stereotyped as exclusively physicalistic (“atoms swirling in the void”), many contemporary atheists have developed a Platonic atheism. Platonic atheism affirms abstract ...

It’s also hard to sort out who is an atheist in the strict sense of the word versus an agnostic or a person who follows a religion that is more of a philosophy without the worship of a god ...

Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker created 'plewds,' those flying sweat droplets that appear around a character’s head to indicate they're working hard or stressed. Being a big fan of the comic ...

from devout Mormonism to aggressive atheism, is on the menu. What is on trial is becoming fundamentalist about any of the above. “You could argue that the movie is critiquing, or at the very ...

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 ...

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 ...