As one who writes and teaches a lot about secularism and humanism, lectures a lot about atheism and agnosticism, and directs a secular studies program, there are a few common questions/comments that ...

To start these conversations, I usually ask the guest to define their spiritual identity. And when I asked this of author Vanessa Zoltan, she replied that she's a Jewish atheist. That is interesting ...

The fight between New Atheism and religious extremism is futile, for both are rigid in their outlooks and blind to social injustices. Political atheism is a radical alternative rooted in a broader ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These scientists espouse a frequently derisive rhetoric on religion and the religious public. Dawkins, for example, has argued ...

Even without God, people still seek ritual, structure, and community. Atheist churches fill the social role religion once ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fewer people are affiliated with religion in the United States, but that hardly means that they're all atheists. Anthony ...

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In another potential future, the mystery of consciousness ends up seeming more profound in the shadow of machine intelligence ...

An atheist columnist called on non-believers to boldly share their secular opinions and "normalize" atheism if they wanted to stop America's "drift into theocracy," in her Tuesday opinion piece for ...