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I recently had one of those inevitable FB discussions with some right-wing conservative Christians in which I was lumped in with atheists. ...

CNN has a nice in-depth video interview with writer/biologist Richard Dawkins. It's definitely worth your time if you care about scient...

I'm not much of a joiner. I have a hard time affiliating with organizations whose policies or ideologies I can't fully embrace. I ...

The below video tribute offers a wonderful example of Hitchens's ferocity, passion, and conviction. Hitchens, in his own words, speaki...

Trey Parker and Matt stone, creators of South Park and The Book of Mormon , think Richard Dawkins is a dick. Dawkins, on 'South Par...

Over at Huffington Post , Rabbi Adam Jacobs tries to make a case that everyone, regardless of what they tell you (or what they think they b...

The Public Religion Research Institute has just released their 2011 American Values Survey . While there are a lot of interesting finding...

Penn Jillette writes in his book God, No! about how he responded to a challenge from Glenn Beck to come up with 10 commandments for non-bel...

As part of John Harris's National Conversations in The Guardian , Richard Dawkins discusses the accusations that he believes religion t...

Everett with a Paraha tribesman Many people don't understand what life would be like without religion. Those who do not subscribe to...

On The Australian TV show The Gruen Transfer , there is a segment of the show called The Pitch in which ad agencies compete to win a specif...

The progressive religious culture site (and magazine) RELEVANT has posted an article (' My Friend, The Atheist ') by C.R. Wiley, a C...

Sam Harris, author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape, answers quest...

A Dutch vicar is making waves for his views on Christianity. Rev Klauss Hendrikse The Reverend Klaas Hendrikse is quoted by the BBC ...

Speakers in order of appearance: 1. Lawrence Krauss, World-Renowned Physicist 2. Robert Coleman Richardson, Nobel Laureate in Physics ...

Two churches in Bend, Oregon were vandalized Sunday night .  Spray-painted graffiti on the exteriors of Westside Church and Christian Life C...

Much has been said, since the recent rise in popularity of Ayn Rand among conservatives, about the incompatibility of Rand's Objectivis...

From The Christian Post : A self-confessed atheist has become a believer after mocking God by sarcastically praying for his mother to win ...

A Vatican newspaper article says condom use may increase AIDS risk. I'm pretty sure someone also once died from being hit in the head wi...

(Part 4 of an ongoing, meandering stream of undefined scope.) There was a period of several years between the point when I accepted my lac...