Atheist Nation

The most common misunderstanding about atheism involves the definition. Many people insist that atheism is really the denial of the existence of God, but there are two errors here.  

Today’s article was written by Luis Dias, a blog subscriber. Christians and other religious people often use the moral argument not only as evidence of a deity, but also as a philosophical weapon against atheism, and the argument, though never made explicit, implicitly goes as follows: God is...  

calling atheism a religion is like calling bald a good hair color icegoat  

See, there's your problem, George: "I see atheism as a subjective judgment of the kind "there is no God". Atheism is the lack of belief in god(s). The strong atheist will declare there is no god(s), but I've met very few of those. Most of us are weak atheists, FYI. So there's the definition of...  

The slur du jour aimed at atheists appears to be that of "militant atheism." While we in the atheist community know full well that there is no such thing as a militant atheist, the Christians who use this phrase remain willfully ignorant or are simply so used to distorting reality that it no...  

A.C. Grayling is looking forward to the possibility of an atheist prime minister.  

Denial seems to be a common reaction to atheism: denial of what atheism is, that atheists exist, and so forth.  

What is the definition of atheism? How do atheists define atheism? How do dictionaries define atheism? A common theme throughout the definitions here is the primary use of 'disbelieve' when defining atheism.  

I am a member of American Atheists. I joined close to a year ago because I wanted to find out whether the organization would be a worthwhile one to support via membership. I have been fairly disappointed and do not plan to renew my membership when it expires. I have been much happier with the...  

YouTube - Magical Atheism >> Posted by: Mutainia 3 minutes ago 1.0 Scale of 1 to 10 Read: 3 Propped: 1 Prop it A Creationist puts on a video called "Magical Atheism", then questions atheists who try to defend ...  

As bestseller lists of late show, atheism is stirring up a keen interest among readers nationwide.  

This month's issue of Psychology Today has an interesting piece that reminded me of everybody's dear friend, Vox Day. He asserts in his blog and his book on many occasions that atheists are more likely to suffer from what he terms "social autism"--disorders such as Asperger's Syndrome or mild...  

In a previous post we talked about on what religion the Church of Integrity is based. The church is not only inspired by the religions mentioned in that post but also on Atheism. We gave a short hint about this relation whe we added the Atheist Blogroll. In this post we'll go more in depth into...  

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome.  

The founders of an Arizona church that deifies marijuana have pleaded guilty to two criminal charges and are now each facing up to 20 years in prison.