Once upon a time, not so long ago, atheism was the belief system that dared not speak its name. Even the most ardent skeptic paid lip service to faith, or at least to the blessings that mankind ...

When an acquaintance described her as a “precocious atheist,” the label stuck. And despite going through the motions of confirmation in the Catholic church, she failed to inherit the devout ...

How to respond when someone rudely sneers at your religious beliefs, or lack thereof? I am an atheist and this happens to me a lot from one particular person. N.T. / Wakefield The best response in ...

The director of Atheist Oklahoma was at an appointment in June when he received a barrage of texts, emails and phone calls from atheists across the state. Tim Ward, of Moore, said he soon realized ...

In a bid to remould their beliefs, detainees are compelled to pledge loyalty to the Party, renounce Islam, learn atheism, Mandarin, and sing songs glorifying communism. The punishment for speaking ...

Atheists may support the theory of evolution, but that doesn’t mean public school lessons on evolution unlawfully promote atheism, according to a new ruling from a federal district court. The decision ...

A federal judge in Indiana dismissed a lawsuit filed by parents of five public school children who argued the school should be banned from teaching evolution because it amounts to the state coercing ...

Although atheism is often stereotyped as exclusively physicalistic (“atoms swirling in the void”), many contemporary atheists have developed a Platonic atheism. Platonic atheism affirms abstract ...