Atheism

I have yet to hear it proclaimed at the UN, or at our regional and national human rights bodies, that the rights of atheists, agnostics and freethinkers are human rights.  

This is the eleventh entry in the Atheism round of the 2012 Ideological Turing Test for Religion. In this round, the honest answers of atheists are mixed in with Christians’ best efforts to talk like atheists. It’s your job to see if you can spot t...  

This is the twelfth entry in the Atheism round of the 2012 Ideological Turing Test for Religion. In this round, the honest answers of atheists are mixed in with Christians’ best efforts to talk like atheists. It’s your job to see if you can spot th...  

Atheism is one of the most absurd belief systems every devised. A worldview based on denial of a belief in God will inevitably manifest itself in bitterness, anger, and hatred. Atheists are a miserable lot who seek to inflict their misery on ...  

This is the tenth entry in the Atheism round of the 2012 Ideological Turing Test for Religion. In this round, the honest answers of atheists are mixed in with Christians’ best efforts to talk like atheists. It’s your job to see if you can spot the ...  

This is the ninth entry in the Atheism round of the 2012 Ideological Turing Test for Religion. In this round, the honest answers of atheists are mixed in with Christians’ best efforts to talk like atheists. It’s your job to see if you can spot the ...  

The problem of atheism: Can atheists insist upon morality? Am I perpetuating a myth when I say that atheists cannot establish a basis for morality? I do not believe I am. It’s not that atheists cannot be moral. Of course, they can. But they cannot b...  

This is the eighth entry in the Atheism round of the 2012 Ideological Turing Test for Religion. In this round, the honest answers of atheists are mixed in with Christians’ best efforts to talk like atheists. It’s your job to see if you can spot the...  

This is the fifth entry in the Atheism round of the 2012 Ideological Turing Test for Religion. In this round, the honest answers of atheists are mixed in with Christians’ best efforts to talk like atheists. It’s your job to see if you can spot the ...  

This is the seventh entry in the Atheism round of the 2012 Ideological Turing Test for Religion. In this round, the honest answers of atheists are mixed in with Christians’ best efforts to talk like atheists. It’s your job to see if you can spot th...  

This is the sixth entry in the Atheism round of the 2012 Ideological Turing Test for Religion. In this round, the honest answers of atheists are mixed in with Christians’ best efforts to talk like atheists. It’s your job to see if you can spot the ...  

This is the fourth entry in the Atheism round of the 2012 Ideological Turing Test for Religion. In this round, the honest answers of atheists are mixed in with Christians’ best efforts to talk like atheists. It’s your job to see if you can spot the...  

Atheism is a disbelief in Gods. "The New Atheism" refers to an exceptionally active group of atheists centered around the work of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and the recently deceased Christopher Hitchens. All four are ...  

This is the third entry in the Atheism round of the 2012 Ideological Turing Test for Religion. In this round, the honest answers of atheists are mixed in with Christians’ best efforts to talk like atheists. It’s your job to see if you can spot the ...  

In a conventional Turing Test, computer programmers try to write a computer program that can pass for human.  In the Ideological Turing Test, atheists and Christians test how well they understand each other by trying to talk like each other.  All the...  

Dave Silverman appeared on The Alyona Show (with substitute host Abby Martin) Wednesday night to talk about the state of atheism in America.It’s a long segment with time for some substantive discussion — pretty unusual for television news a...  

It might be expected that conservative Christians would hold at least some animus towards atheists, and in fact hostility towards atheism is almost universal among 'born-again Christians.' Even non-Christians and ...Read Full Post  

This is the first entry in the Atheism round of the 2012 Ideological Turing Test for Religion. In this round, the honest answers of atheists are mixed in with Christians’ best efforts to talk like atheists. It’s your job to see if you can spot the ...  

Dennett, along with Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens, might best be described as the Holy Trinity of atheism. Where Hitchens was a brilliant, militant and supremely eloquent orator, able to logically eviscerate believers left and right ...  

The New Atheists — participants in the contemporary anti-religion movement led by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens, among others — are working overtime to tell the world that reason favors atheism, and atheism alone.  

I’ve been an atheist most of my life, and I find it very strange when people don’t understand. So, this article will try to explain why I am an atheist. First, we need to define …Read More  

There is a huge thorn in the side of Atheism. It’s had about 2500 years to expunge the world of superstition, and still most people believe in some form of supernatural Grandeur with a very sadistic sense of right and wrong and a peculiar similarity to ...  

Public discussion of religion tends to be extremely polarized, split between religious fundamentalism and the aggressive atheism of such writers as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. But much of what people actually believe falls somewhere in ...  

So often I find myself harping on about the term “atheism”, what it means, what it doesn’t mean, and the implications, associations and misunderstandings that go hand-in-hand with the term “atheist”. It’s annoying to parrot on, but I hope this adds something to the conversation. For many, the atheist represents everything that is bad in [...]  

Explaining to a die-hard Christian that you are a “friendly atheist” is sometimes equivalent to explaining you are a friendly murderer.   To them, atheists are evil soulless creatures condemned to hell. God made atheists, atheists. Who are they to question his creations? Who are they to question anything? Questioning means you don’t have true faith. The [...]  

Public discussion of religion tends to polarize between two extremes: religious fundamentalism, and the aggressive atheism of such writers as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. But much of what people actually believe falls somewhere in between.  

Public discussion of religion tends to polarize between two extremes: religious fundamentalism, and the aggressive atheism of such writers as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. But much of what people actually believe falls somewhere in between.  

Public discussion of religion tends to polarize between two extremes: religious fundamentalism, and the aggressive atheism of such writers as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. But much of what people actually believe falls somewhere in between.  

Its study also showed Christians nationwide had a higher divorce rate than atheists. Such findings prompted Austin Cline, who writes on atheism and agnosticism for about.com to say, “The difference in divorce rates is particularly interesting given the ...  

Nancy Frankenberry is the John Phillips Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College. She has recently edited The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words Since we are already riding piggyback here, I will ignore Eagleton’s and Dawkins’ books ...  

Maybe they would offer a way to address the problem. Maybe they would argue that there is no problem - life is just a cycle of birth, eating, procreating, fighting and dying. Let’s hear. Atheism, of course, wouldn’t help atheists.  

While some are more accepting than others, the black community sort of has this policy of sorts that damns non believers to hell: Several years ago, I pitched a freelance piece about black atheism to a prominent magazine geared toward African-Americans.  

It can be said that almost all religions do not even know that they are extremist, all they believe is their religion and what they’ve heard and would go to any length to prove their faith. In the last few weeks I have and seen so many ...  

New posts at Many Years Young 5/20/12 Analytic Thinking Can Promote Atheism Distinct ‘God Spot’ in the Brain Does Not Exist, Study Shows Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion when helping a stranger Scientific evidence proves why healers see the ‘aura’ of people Plus lots more.  

For half a decade, the cognitive science of religion has sought the evolutionary origins of religious belief. This burgeoning field has some deep and convincing explanations, but it may also stigmatize atheists as aberrations of evolution. Now ...  

I’m getting increasingly annoyed by all the anti-religious propaganda that litters my Facebook newsfeed. Look, as a fellow humanist and atheist, I get it. Organized religion is a problem on so many levels that I don’t even know where to begin. I’d be the first person to say that something needs to be done about it and I’m delighted to see atheism become normalized in our society and culture. But seriously, folks, what are you hoping to achieve...  

Oxford - Richard Dawkins is without doubt one of the most outstanding scientific minds of our or of any generation, but when he ventures out of his field, he does not shine quite so brightly. It is not quite true that Dawkins rewrote Darwin, rather ...  

It would be difficult to find conservative Christians, and perhaps even Christians generally, who don't mischaracterize atheism as a belief or a religion. It's probably the most common misrepresentation out there and is the most fundamental misunderstanding of atheism possible. How do you respond to that when you encounter it -- and you definitely encounter it if you discuss atheism at all. Read Full PostForum Discussion: Atheism is...  

Christopher DiCarlo of Freethought TV and Atheist Community of Austin president Matt Dillahunty will argue for atheism while philosopher Michael Horner and Dr. Paul Chamberlain of the Institute for Christian Apologetics at Trinity Western University will ...  

Scientific American columnist Michael Shermer calls it Stenger's best work to date, “clearly placing him in the new atheist pantheon alongside Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens.” Author Guy Harrison, who wrote “50 ...  

God Is Not Dead Yet | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction William Lane Craig lays out his best arguments for the existence of God.(tags: kalam william-lane-craig christianity religion apologetics atheism philosophy)On God and Our ...  

I followed a link from Susie’s page to this post by Steve Volk about the deification of Christopher Hitchens and how new atheism gets so many things wrong.  rolling eyes I have to agree in one respect about the deification of Hitchens.  I don’t get it either.  Hitchens was in many respects as irrational as [...]  

The unfriendly dialogue between atheists and Christians is getting nowhere, largely because it focuses on trying to establish which worldview is worst. Just take, as Exhibits A and B, the following remarks by Christopher Hitchens and Dinesh D'Souza ...  

For those gay people in our LGBT community that believe God does not love them, they will be happy to know that there are some godless people that share the same sentiment. Atheism is on the rise in the gay community.  More and more LGBT ...  

Why do cult leaders and religious fanatics try to insult atheists by comparing atheism to a cult and atheists to religious fanatics? Zealous atheists resemble religious fanatics. Rabbi Dow Marmur #Atheism is a cult with a small following. Deepak Chopra I really don’t get it. It’s as if I were to sneer at creationists by [...]...  

By itself, atheism doesn't really qualify as an "identity" or even much of a basis for an identity because mere atheism is simply the absence of belief in gods. Nevertheless, you'll find a lot of people -- some atheists, but mostly theists -- who try to create just such an "atheist identity." They aren't doing atheists any favors, though, because they are creating identities designed to control atheists by framing what is and is not...  

Several years ago, I pitched a freelance piece about black atheism to a prominent magazine geared toward African-Americans. The pitch was denied, but not for any real reason. "That one might be a bit, uh, hard," is all my editor said. I'd later come to ...  

Patrick Greene, an atheist activist in Texas who said last month he had become a believer in Christ after a Christian woman showed compassion to him, now says his conversion was merely out of excitement.  

If you ask an educated person to name prominent French figures of the Enlightenment, there is a pretty good chance he or she will name Voltaire and/or Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Atheists will likely view these Enlightenment figures positively, especially Voltaire, for laying the foundations for modern secular thought. In this essay, I want to discuss just … Continue reading »  

They are made quite aware of their atheism, either because of how they're treated for it, or because they have to keep silent about it for fear of being ridiculed. So perhaps with this tendency to be more self-conscious comes an equally more ...  

#rants Several years ago, I pitched a freelance piece about black atheism to a prominent magazine geared toward African-Americans. The pitch was denied, but not for any real reason. "That one might be a bit, uh, hard," is all my editor said. I'd later come to find out that he was merely sheltering me from his ultra-Christian executive editor, who would never let a piece questioning religion run...  

Over at the blog Why Evolution is True Jerry Coyne has linked to a vast collection of videos about evolution, creationism, science, and critical thinking. I was so impressed by this project that I've added the website to my list of recommended sites, ...  

Cord Jefferson, the senior editor at GOOD magazine, has a wonderful piece at Gawker about the struggles of being a black atheist: Several years ago, I pitched a freelance piece about black atheism to a prominent magazine geared toward African-Americans.  

There are frequent debates not only between atheists and theists, but also among atheists on the subject of religion. Why? Because there is no unanimity among atheists on religion. Different ...Read Full Post  

We are atheists - atheism is our belief system, atheism is our religion. People say that us atheistshave no god or don’t believe in any god, but that’s not true. Our god is the god of the magical cosmicexplosion which started it all. Our godis called ...  

If you are a geek like me, then you went to see Marvel’s The Avengers this weekend. It was a fucking awesome film. But what does it tell us about religion and what interesting things should atheists take away from the film? On the surface, there are two references to gods. The first was when [...]  

Atheists have been around for decades, and they've been organizing for decades. But something new, something big, has been happening in atheism in the last few years -- atheism has become much more visible, more vocal, more activist, better ...  

As further evidence that atheists are as diverse as their faithful counterpart, Alain De Botton has penned a controversial new book called Religion for Atheists. And not surprising, he’s gotten no small amount of push- back from the atheist community for ...  

A C Grayling was one of the other stars at the Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne. His talk canvassed the future of atheism and he set this in a very comprehensible historical context. Anthony Grayling’s academic research concerns the relation ...  

Wikipedia says that "the demographics of atheism are difficult to quantify. Different people interpret atheism and related terms differently, and it can be hard to draw boundaries between atheism, nonreligious beliefs, and nontheistic religious and spiritual beliefs.  

If you ever want your fill of daily political atheist links and links to general atheist resources, you could do worse than visit Secular News Daily. And if you want to follow a feed with a number of atheist blogs, you should both add Freethought Blogs to your feed reader and also read Planet Atheism, [...]...  

"Coming out" now may be a clichéd term, but as the "We Are Atheism" project has shown, it hasn't entirely lost its currency. The new organization encourages others to be open about their atheism, an act that is more than a confession ...  

Greta Christina put up a really thought-provoking post today at FreeThought Blogs (“Will Atheism Become Easier?“).  Greta’s not talking about the boring question (will atheists be less stigmatized in the future — pretty clearly yes), she’s ...  

Richard Dawkins is a fine evolutionary biologist, but a feeble theologian. He has every right to be an atheist, to promote atheism and persuade others to be atheists, and to urge others to scorn religion and reject Christianity. I would never say that he should not exercise these rights. But I would say two things: one, he, like other atheists, cannot prove the non-existence of God; and, two, he, like other atheists, accepts the non-existence...  

The National Day of Reason provides an alternative to the National Day of Prayer. Atheists provide both an implicit and an explicit charge here. They reject praying to a God whom they will not acknowledge. They advocate “scientific” reason ...  

Playing the devil’s advocate is different than being a double edge sword. Yesterday’s article showed an apparent view of how some atheists feel about our gay community but Atheism as a whole is not solely about hate.  The purpose of that ...  

Over the last 40 years, Gallup polls as well as other surveys on American attitudes have consistently concluded that the most despised minority in America is one in which people refer to themselves as atheists or agnostics. These authors, along ...  

A month ago, I posted about how one of the cast members of “Teen Mom 2,” Kailyn Lowry, openly talked about her atheism on Twitter. Yesterday, one of her followers questioned her status as a role model because of that: @kaillowry you are atheist? And you are considered a “role model” ? — Alex Mendez [...]  

I want to get a couple atheist stories out of my guilt file before it’s too late. Ignore this YouTube here for a second and let’s look at the good media coverage. Here’s the Associated Press report on a recent atheist event: Read more on Mixed bag of atheism coverage…  

This article will be brief, and I do not intend to present much empirical evidence, only my thoughts on a small matter dealing with the ‘atheism – theism’ debate that has taken the attention of much of this community. I want to address the issue of ...  

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“E Pluribus Unum” – Latin for “Out of Many, One”  This was the motto of the United States Of America from the time the Seal of the United States was first created in 1776, right up until the 1950′s, where during the height of the Cold War and the McCarthy communist fear, under the Eisenhower [...]  

Ryan Cragun, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Tampa who studies American atheism, sees the growing political organization among nontheists as a sign of their maturation as a movement. Yet while Cragun says he personally supports the ...  

Isaac Asimov, the late famous author and professor of biochemistry, is known for saying, "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."  Many atheists were once religious. Those in the U.S. are far more likely ...  

Chris Calvey calls it “a little bit of a crazy idea.” He’s a graduate student at UW-Madison, and along with some of his fellow students he’s organizing a major three-day conference in Madison starting Friday, April 27, for atheists, humanists and agnostics.  

Atheists in America often get criticized by Christians for “only focus on Christianity.” It is not unusual for Christians to even claim that atheists are afraid to criticize Islam. To address this issue, I’m going to start by criticizing Christianity.  

Once the general perception of atheism as something evil is done away with through research and discussion, one common question is where atheists stand in regards to ancient Eastern philosophies such as Buddhism and Taosim. Even though they're regarded as ...  

CHRIS Berg rightly asserts the importance of Christianity to the formation of European and modern civilisation in ''The godless delusion'' (Opinion, 15/4). But his argument is misleading. First, he suggests that certain social goods, such as the importance ...  

My journey to atheism was not long or difficult. I was raised in a Reform Jewish home that was not particularly religious. I grew up in a city where there was a fairly large Jewish population in the suburbs, but there were very few other Jews within the city. My sister, two teachers, and I [...]...  

The number of disbelievers is growing, but they remain America's least trusted minority. Why? How many atheists are there? It depends on your definition of the term. Only between 1.5 and 4 percent of Americans admit to so-called "hard atheism," the ...  

Atheism is quite simply the absence of belief that any deities exist. In a sense there is no such thing as a true absence of faith. The rejection of deities as propagated by an atheist or the uncertainty towards deities of the agnostic is in itself a system of belief.[...]  

Here is a simple question for atheists - especially those atheists who will be attending the Global Atheist Convention: "What is life for?" Simple enough? In a curious way there would seem to be two apparently contradictory answers to this question and ...  

IITEMBU and Basson (‘Religion is Superstition,’ The Namibian, 3 May 2012), I feel you’ve led us up to the top of the holy hill of atheism to prove why religion isn’t necessary. Yet you failed to intellectually prove your arguments, except that you ...  

Yesterday Hemant Mehta of the Friendly Atheist took issue with comments made by physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in relation to atheism. In a video by BigThink, Tyson attempts to distance himself from atheism. Here’s the video: While I wouldn’t call myself a “militant atheist” because I don’t own any guns or advocate violence (the way [...]  

In the minds of many believers atheism is linked with immorality, and despite mounds ofevidence to the contrary, religious leaders reinforce this stereotype. I once attended a Palm Sunday service at a popular Calvinist megachurch in Seattle.  

To put it simply, there is a lot of risk involved. As stated in a previous article about The Clergy Project, revealing one's atheism, whether you're a cleric or not, means a good probability of losing your friends, job, or even family.  

SAN ANTONIO, May 3 (UPI) -- A Texas man who has been suing officials for decades on allegations of endorsing Christianity said he briefly converted before returning to atheism. Patrick Greene, 63, who has filed complaints and lawsuits against ...  

a great little collection of recordings, produced by trey parker and matt stonea quote from the video description:"atheism in the name of god is an abandonment of all religious beliefs . . . giving up the attempt to make sense of the world in terms of ...  

Atheism and agnosticism are still taboo subjects in this country, yet a surprising number of celebrities are "out" with regard to their personal beliefs (or lack thereof).  This is encouraging in that as the topic gains more exposure ...  

“Coming out of the closet” is what many in the secular community call publicly admitting to atheism. Silverman believes it should be a personal choice.  These politicians’ identities are therefore a closely guarded secret. “We want ...  

Hello. My name is Quinn Mander, and I am an atheist. I am also a (not very anonymous) recovering alcoholic, which makes the aforementioned atheism difficult to maintain in the face of fellow members of Alcoholics Anonymous. And it requires a fair amount of mental contortion and gymnastics if one intends to put into practice [...]...  

Atheists from Fort Bragg bragged about an Atheist event which, while it was called “Rock Beyond Belief,” was geared towards Atheist who rely 100% upon belief for their Atheism—dogmatheism. Think about it, they not only claim that they have not ...  

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(Author's Note: The following review was solicited and is written in accordance with this site's policy for such reviews.) Summary: A surprising, welcome reminder that atheism has a long and storied history in the U.S. Letters f...  

Adam Lee of Daylight Atheism recently reran an essay he wrote in response to Peter Hitchens (“Atheists Don’t Just Want Sex and Drugs”).  Specifically, he was taking issue with Peter Hitchens’s claim that a moral system that lacked God ...  

They were reacting to some of his postings on a Facebook page devoted to atheism: a note entitled “the Prophet Muhammad was attracted to his own daughter-in-law”; a comic suggesting the Prophet slept with his wife's maid; and a status update ...  

Competition among denominations may account for that interest in religion, Smith said. The surveys found: • Atheism is strongest in northwest European countries such as Scandinavia and the former Soviet states (except for Poland). The former East Germany ...  

“I’m an atheist. I know that can be hard for some people to understand sometimes. But I’ll give you my background and perhaps it will shed some light. It is true that some atheists have had bad experiences with churches. I was one of them, but my atheism grew from that after much contemplation and [...]...  

The idea of an atheist attending church services seems contradictory - doesn't that require belief in God? Isn't freedom on Sunday morning one of the benefits of atheism? Although most atheists don't count themselves as part of religions which require regular attendance at churches or other houses of worship, you can still find some who do... Read Article: Do any atheists go to church? If so, why?  

Would people pray in the temple? “No, no. People would probably behave as they would in a museum.” De Botton wants to reclaim atheism from strident anti-religion figures such as Richard Dawkins. While this is a laudable aim, I can’t help thinking ...  

The façade of a “humanistic” atheism is only able to stand as long as one accepts the basic principle, as espoused by the Declaration of Independence – based on the opening chapters of Genesis – that every human being possesses infinite preciousness.  

Why is atheism the privileged philosophy worthy of taxpayer support? Why must Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish schools pay their own way, but atheist schools are supported by billions of taxpayer dollars? Are they better than the denominational schools?  

So I know that this PM must do things that upset me or she will be a goner. I think that the Chaplaincy Program is lame and should have a secular atheism alternative but I don't really care that much about it. It only costs a couple of hundred million ...  

It was at a symposium at New York University in May 2004 that Flew gave up his 50-year belief in atheism and announced that he now accepted the existence of a God. He writes: What I think the DNA material has done is that it has shown by the almost ...  

Crommunist has started what has basically become a meme on FreeThoughtBlogs.com taking the next step from PZ Myers' "Why am I an Atheist" series. It's an interesting view on atheism, moving away from the cause into the effect side of the equation. I'm...  

As an atheist I love your conversations about faith and theology, but I often find the discussion of atheism wanting. I think the issue for me is similar to one you've complained about as a Catholic: that the loudest proponents of your religion do not ...  

I believe two varieties of atheists exist, which I call “small-A” and “big-A.” Small-A atheists comprise more or less ALL atheists; small-A atheism is simply the fact of not believing in any gods or practicing any theistic religion (at least, not with the understanding that any of it is real in any sense but cultural). [...]...  

Dawkins and Tyson seem to be playing to a popular audience with their distinction between atheism and agnosticism - a distinction which cannot really be upheld in the scientific worldview. The default position for a scientist is to not believe something ...  

It is often asked by the Religious why so many articles for Atheism have been published here on News24 of late. I would like to venture my reason for this trend. It is often said and echoed by many that people of different faiths or non-faith to respect ...  

A few days ago this forum published an article of mine in which I challenged atheists to explain to the world what was in or about atheism which could persuade a Believer to forsake his or her belief and become an atheist. I also posed the question as to ...  

The three-day Freethought Festival features presentations on a range of topics, from secular parenting and morality to the historical Jesus and the separation of church and state. — atheism, agnosticism, skepticism, freethinking, humanism and more.  

When I was a kid, there was no Internet. Getting to a bookstore wasn't always easy, and even when I could do so, I rarely had money. What I did have was a public library, and I relied on it quite heavily for reading material. Unfortunately, they didn't have much of anything on atheism. This is why Austin Cline's post about the importance of getting atheist books in our local public libraries struck me as a good idea. I realize that kids today...  

It would be fanciful self-flattery to assume that coming to atheism was all my own doing, based solely upon some youthful intellectual shrewdness and critical thinking abilities. Of course, we all can lay claim to unconsciously filing away in our brain any signals and inconsistencies we encounter over time. But of course there were outside [...]...  

Those who wish to demonize or denigrate atheists are rather fond of telling us what we believe as a consequence of our atheism. You've undoubtedly heard the shrieking refrain of “you're an atheist? That means you believe ...  

Bruce Gerencser is a former preacher turned atheist who writes the worthwhile Fallen From Grace blog. In a post this week, he explores the issues I raised when I wondered about the pros and cons of atheist and former preacher Jerry DeWitt coopting the stylistics of his Southern Pentecostal preaching background for advancing the cause of atheism: Dan [...]...  

In an article he wrote in February for the New Statesman, Journalist Bryan Appleyard described how a “neo-atheism” – by which he ... Islam”, an anthropomorphised God and other metaphysical concepts which seem farfetched.