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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...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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  

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 [...]  

The New Atheist Agenda    Patrick Zukeran, Probe Ministries - May 23, 2012   The New Atheist AgendaNearly thirty years ago John Lennon sang the song, “Imagine.” The words went like this:    “Imagine there’s no heaven    It’s easy if you try    No hell below us    Above us only sky    Imagine all the people    Living for today    Imagine there’s no countries    It isn’t hard to do    Nothing to kill or die for    And no religion too...  

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 ...  

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.  

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 ...  

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 ...  

Addicting Info brings us another disturbing story about the Catholic Church. And no, this one does not involve child rape.As you know, the Church is opposed to contraception and continues to rail against the Obama administration's mandate that it be made available by insurance companies. Appearing on MSNBC this week, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said that the Church was willing to end all charity work, including aid to the poor, in order to protest...  

The United States was founded, in part, on the idea that citizens should be free to practice their religions without government interference. We hear a lot about religious freedom these days, but it is difficult to imagine that the founders were talking about anything other than one's freedom to practice one's religion in the privacy of one's own home or place of worship. They probably weren't thinking about religious freedom as involving the...  

I hadn't planned on writing about Edwina Rogers. Others in the atheist community seem far more concerned with her hiring and far better positioned to put the tough questions to her than I am. But I've been asked about how I, a politically progressive atheist, feel about Rogers' hiring, and so I thought I'd share a few thoughts. In case you are not familiar with the controversy over Rogers, here is how Adam Lee (Daylight Atheism) summarized the...  

I have a question for the readers who, like me, were raised in a particular religion: What might have helped you abandon religious belief earlier than you did? You were raised religious, and you are now atheists. So my question is what might have helped you make the transition earlier than you did.I've been thinking about this for myself recently, and I have decided that the most important thing that would have helped me would have been the...  

As our politicians desperately try to show how pious they are, it seems that growing numbers of Americans are growing tired of religious pandering. This article at CNN by Lisa Desjardis suggests that some evangelical Christians are beginning to tire of hearing religious talk from politicians. Tim King (Sojourners) is quoted as saying:You don't get to win the argument because you have more Bible verses. You need to make the case about why your...