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 ...

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 ...

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. Fewer people are affiliated with religion in the United States, but that hardly means that they're all atheists. Anthony ...

What we’ll share with you can help you reflect on your own opinions about religious ideas and be better prepared not to assume others are, or are not, religious without getting to know them first. It ...

(RNS) — At its core, secularism is an approach to governance, writes Jacques Berlinerblau in his new book ‘Secularism: The Basics.’ And critically, it is one many religious people, not just atheists ...

(The Conversation) — The number of individuals in the United States who do not identify as being part of any religion has grown dramatically in recent years, and “the nones” are now larger than any ...

Some people find it incredible their otherwise intelligent friends believe in a God, a Virgin Birth or the Resurrection of Christ. Others find it incredible that their otherwise intelligent friends ...

ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah — In the cold dark of a November night, beneath the jagged cliffs of Zion National Park, Dani Hsia posed a question that mystics and religious thinkers have pondered for ...