At some point in my late teens, I became an atheist. I do not remember the exact moment when it happened. I was raised as a Roman Catholic in a fairly religious middle-class Jamaican household. My ...

In everyday life, many people whose views are actually agnostic identify themselves as atheists. Secular humanists, Jains, and some Buddhists have views that could fit the definition of atheism.

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 ...

Some sociology academics have, after a three-year research project called ‘Exploring Atheism’, unveiled a startling discovery: there are a lot of people in Britain who don’t believe in God. I know, it ...

The Dawkins quotation referenced by Lennox came from the atheist’s book, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life: “In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are ...