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Church Militant
April 24, 2018
DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - Studies show that atheism is growing at an alarming rate in the United States. According to data and analysis published in January by religious research company Barna Group, 13 percent of Generation Z identify as atheists. Generation Z consists of those born 1999-2015.
Big Think (blog)
April 24, 2018
While we noted that a cult doesn't have to be religious, atheism isn't a unified movement of non-religious people. While all atheists agree that there are no gods, most atheists come to that conclusion independently. There are also many different kinds of atheists: implicit atheists, Christian atheists, weakÃâà...
Patheos (blog)
April 23, 2018
Pro-Christian prejudice is very much still a thing here in 2018, and even those with faiths in the “wrong” god are looked down upon less often than the atheist. Keep an eye out, fellow non-believers. We may still be hidden in some areas of the country, but we are here. You may just have to look a little closer.
The Hindu
April 23, 2018
Also known as negative or implicit atheism, this refers to the belief or the philosophical stance that presumes the absence of a supernatural god while not completely denying its possible existence. It can also be defined as a general absence of belief in the existence of god as against a strong belief in theÃâà...
Big Think (blog)
April 23, 2018
Shortly after Frank admitted to his lack of interest in religion, an openly atheist candidate, James Woods, ran for Congress in Arizona's 5th District in 2014. He was defeated soundly in that Republican-leaning district. But he decided not only to not run from his atheism but to use it as a springboard inÃâà...
VICE
April 23, 2018
Of course, that hasn't stopped the so-called new atheists like Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Sam Harris—and their annoyingly fanatical online acolytes—banging on ... Gray has written a new book called Seven Types of Atheism, revealing the surprising variety of perspectives among irreligionists.
The Guardian
April 15, 2018
Then one defined himself as a “Protestant atheist” and the other as a “Catholic atheist” and they split apart. The serious point here is that there are many forms of atheism and their meaning depends on what God or gods are being rejected. The first Christians were called atheists because they refused toÃâà...
Mission Network News
April 3, 2018
Please pray that the Lord will strengthen believers as they stand firm against persecution. Pray they will act as loving witnesses to those who have become atheists and give them hope to keep going. Pray also for those who have left Islam and are searching for answers to find Jesus and choose Him as theirÃâà...
Patheos (blog)
April 3, 2018
Richard Spencer, the white supremacist and movement figurehead who coined the term ” alt-right,” discussed his atheism last year in an interview with atheist blogger David McAfee. When he posted the interview on his own website, Spencer retitled it “The Alt Right and Secular Humanism,” leaving noÃâà...
Patheos (blog)
April 3, 2018
Atheism is a religion like Christianity, at its core, it assumes the ultimate question is answered first, ie. whether God exists. Christianity assumes God exists and cherry picks evidence and “alternative facts” and spins everything it can to support that ultimate assumption. This is an obvious error of logic andÃâà...
VICE
April 2, 2018
Richard Spencer, the white supremacist and movement figurehead who coined the term " alt-right," discussed his atheism last year in an interview with atheist blogger David McAfee. When he posted the interview on his own website, Spencer retitled it “The Alt Right and Secular Humanism,” leaving noÃâà...
Patheos (blog)
April 2, 2018
'The Swedenborgian Church' sounds like a made-up name from a Monty Python sketch. Especially when you find out the founder and first followers were mostly Swedish. It turns out, it's a very real cult and it's named for its founder, Emanuel Swedenborg. I often get stories from you that teach me things, butÃâà...
The Guardian
April 1, 2018
Vociferous atheists don't shy away from revealing their mocking bemusement at all this. Those of us who make determined efforts to understand and debate with religious believers might be too polite to admit it, but we often feel just as baffled. The laziest way to try to cross this credulity gap is to shrug ourÃâà...
Newsweek
April 1, 2018
Though not an official holiday like the National Day of Reason—which is celebrated every first Thursday in May—"Atheist Day" came about after a satirical 2003 internet story reported on a fictional court case in which a judge declared that April Fools' Day was a holiday for atheists. The story was mistakenÃâà...
Inquirer.net
March 30, 2018
The supreme and nonpareil power of the Resurrection of the Crucified Christ is experienced in what is known as universal redemption. Jesus died for all without exception! What about our few damaged clergy and seraphic singles in crisis? Will they be redeemed? Yes, a resounding yes; God wants HisÃâà...
Science 2.0
March 30, 2018
Atheists believe that life comes from nothingness, from emptiness, so they think there is nothing beyond their understanding. However, science is telling us that there really is no absolute vacuum as it has been revealed thanks to the technological advances of the 21st century. If you do not agree with it,Ãâà...
Deseret News
March 30, 2018
Vatican dismisses report by atheist writer about Pope Francis. By Herb Scribner @HerbScribner. Published: March 30, 2018 2:17 pm Updated: less than a minute agoÃâà...
The Federalist
March 29, 2018
This article claimed that a new empirical study verified that atheists do find meaning in life. The subtext seems to be: See? Atheism isn't so bad after all. This is not an isolated phenomenon. The prominent atheistic evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne has also expressed dismay that anyone would dareÃâà...
Newsweek
March 29, 2018
A Navy board determined that Jason Heap, a secular “humanist” who does not believe in a god and is widely considered an atheist, was qualified for the chaplain ... Jason Torpy, president of the Military Association of Atheists & Freethinkers, said in an email to Newsweek on Wednesday that Heap was “notÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 29, 2018
The sermon, which is distributed by the Ministry of Awqaf, said atheists have “sanctified the human mind” and think that by practicing yoga, they will ... tried to deny addressing women's affairs as such; however, the sermon, which is available online, clearly linked granting women's freedom to atheist habits.
Patheos (blog)
March 28, 2018
And that's because it seems abundantly clear that the atheist “pro-life” argument is identical to the religious one, except Bukovinac didn't invoke “God” ... It's worth going through the video to see exactly what she says since her arguments are typical for the 11% of atheists who say abortion should be illegalÃâà...
Patheos (blog)
March 28, 2018
“BertB, Possible subject for a future piece of yours: In Survey of Which Groups Need More TV Representation, Atheists are dead last.” It's true. Atheists are not ... atheism is preferable. I would far, far prefer to be an unpopular atheist than to carry the baggage that Catholics must carry to support their church.
Raw Story
March 28, 2018
“You atheists are just taking on the mantle of victimhood. There are laws protecting you — especially the First Amendment. Therefore, you're not really discriminated against. And it's ridiculous for you to claim that you are.” Atheist activists get this one a lot. When we speak out about ways that anti-atheistÃâà...
The Times
March 27, 2018
The news that the ashes of the physicist Stephen Hawking, an atheist, are to be interred in Westminster Abbey just confirms my theory that the great and the good often end up in, if not the wrong place, then a most surprising one. The abbey may indeed be the church of kings and queens but it is also aÃâà...
GetReligion (blog)
March 27, 2018
I doubt the atheists are worried about extra prayers. Now, here is a logical question that I wish had been answered in the story: Have American Atheist leaders planned Easter weekend conventions in the past? Has that been an effective publicity strategy? Just asking. The story does include some veryÃâà...
Patheos (blog)
March 26, 2018
With that said, I've sent each inmate some preliminary questions to get the conversation going. If you find you have questions that arise as you read their responses, please post them in the comments below or email them to me @ mommy@godlessmom.com and I will make sure the person gets them.
Conatus News
March 26, 2018
Positioning himself as an atheist, Hawking only did what we should all be able to do – contest without provocation, circumstances permitting. The problem is that circumstances, be they familial or societal, do not always allow atheists to defend themselves and be proud of their views, in the same way thatÃâà...
Catholic Herald Online
March 24, 2018
Did the notorious atheist, communist and anti-religionist go soft in 1932, the year to which this exhibition is dedicated? It was a difficult year for him, but could he have felt sufficiently troubled to have another go at animating a scene that captured his imagination every few years? It's a subject he came back toÃâà...
OneNewsNow
March 24, 2018
Yes, your religion may be different than mine and we understand that - but it is quite another thing to say we're going to open this up to atheists and make ... "The appointment of an atheist to an undeniably religious position is fundamentally incompatible with atheism's secularism,” Wicker continued.
West Central Tribune
March 19, 2018
British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking schmoozed with popes during his lifetime, even though he was an avowed atheist. The famous scientist,who died Wednesday in England at 76, was often asked to explain his views on faith and God. During interviews, he explained his belief that there was noÃâà...
The Clermont Sun
March 19, 2018
The reason prayer is no longer allowed in school is because of a loud, brash and opinionated atheist named Madalyn Murray O'Hair. She was also a trained attorney ... O'Hair then established the American Atheists organization in 1963 to keep religion separated from the government. O'Hair also fought forÃâà...
The Australian
March 19, 2018
The evolutionary biologist and noted atheist said that he had recently learnt that 30 million copies of the book questioning the existence of a supernatural creator had been illegally downloaded with three million alone in Saudi Arabia. “I derive huge encouragement from that,” he said yesterday adding thatÃâà...
Psychology Today (blog)
March 18, 2018
Unconventional beliefs including both paranormal beliefs and atheism are “deviations” that reflect deleterious mutations resulting in developmental instability. Therefore, in preindustrial times, “atheists and believers in the paranormal would, disproportionately, never have reached adulthood or never haveÃâà...
Wichita Eagle
March 17, 2018
“No atheist wants to sit there and listen to have someone have a prayer and nobody who's religious wants to sit there and hear an atheist talk about atheism,” Marlett said. “And that's OK. This is not a forum for religious discussion.” Many responses online focused on atheists not believing in hell.
The Independent
March 9, 2018
An atheist has been kicked off a live TV show in Egypt after the host accused him of being “confused and unreliable” and being in need of psychiatric treatment. Mohammad Hashem was presenting his reasons for being an atheist on Alhadath Alyoum TV when host Mahmoud Abd Al-Halim told him he wasÃâà...
The Tennessean
March 8, 2018
Gayle Jordan, a Democrat running for state senate in Trump country, will soon find out if an openly atheist candidate can win public office in Tennessee. Jordan ... Campaign mailers, online ads and social media posts have targeted Jordan for her atheism and pointed out that she is the executive director ofÃâà...
GOPUSA
March 1, 2018
Atheist groups say the late Rev. Billy Graham should not lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol because of the evangelist's record on gay rights and the precedent it sets for government involvement with religious matters. A letter sent Monday to House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader MitchÃâà...
The Trinitonian
March 1, 2018
In last week's Trinitonian, Alexander Jacobs asked nonbelievers to answer the question: What specific evidence would make you believe in God? He argued that the universe points to the existence of God because, “The beginning of the universe was the beginning of all space, time and matter, [so] itsÃâà...
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
March 1, 2018
The atheist is still an abhorred 'other,' rarely seen as an ordinary person, living an ordinary moral life with the same concerns and hopes as everyone else. So righteous men who bow to a righteous god took righteous action. Morning proceedings were convened earlier than usual, and hardly anyone hadÃâà...
Courthouse News Service
February 28, 2018
CLEVELAND (CN) – An Ohio atheist convicted of drug charges claims in court that a state judge and treatment providers forced him to participate in ... to the supernatural, and interference in plaintiff's sincerely held beliefs concerning religion, Christianity, humanism and atheism,” the complaint states.
Philly.com
February 27, 2018
Cory Markum, an atheist, was delivering a passionate defense of the theory of evolution, yet conceded that once he dug deeper into creationist ideology, there was “much more to it” than he'd thought. Sokol, who had gone through a faith-shaking experience about a year earlier, felt compelled to track downÃâà...
The Trinitonian
February 27, 2018
Atheist here, responding to Alexander Jacobs' question addressed to atheists: “What specific evidence would make you believe in God?” Allow me to begin by stating that these views are mine and mine alone, and I in no way represent the atheist community. What if I told you the question was not whether aÃâà...
The Atlantic
January 31, 2018
Appignani contends that atheists are one of the few minority groups in the country to still be widely ostracized by society. While other marginalized populations, such as women and LGBT people, he argues, are active in American politics, that's still not the case for atheists. “If [someone said] 'I'm an atheistÃâà...
Spectator.co.uk
December 31, 1999
John Gray, one of the most pernickety and carnaptious of contemporary philosophers, presents here a kind of taxonomy of not atheism, per se, but of the ... Although I relished an atheist eviscerating atheists, and was heartened that the book was powdered through with the power of literature, my finalÃâà...
Psychology Today (blog)
December 31, 1999
As discussed in two previous posts, a recent paper (Dutton, Madison, & Dunkel, 2017) argues that belief in a moral god has been selected for by evolution in civilized societies, and that deviations from this belief, such as atheism are likely to be caused adverse genetic mutations that have become prevalentÃâà...
Centre Daily Times
December 31, 1999
Atheists who want to deliver an invocation at a Sedgwick County, Kansas Commission meeting can “go to hell,” a county commissioner said Tuesday. ... The foundation has accused the county government of violating the Constitution by denying an atheist resident the opportunity to speak during the timeÃâà...
Quartz
December 31, 1999
Which there isn't. I'm an atheist.” After Professor Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at 21, he lived for more than five decades with medical professionals telling him that he could die at any moment. For atheists, who believe existence on earth is all that there is, every moment is sacred.
Religion News Service
December 31, 1999
But while Hawking, the theoretical physicist who died Wednesday (March 14) at age 76, was certainly overshadowed in the atheist department by his countryman, the evolutionary biologist and atheist activist Richard Dawkins, Hawking's atheism was more of a slow simmer than Dawkins' explosive ire.
Manhattan Mercury
December 31, 1999
“In this case, the town is saying 'No, we only want Christian or religious prayers to be given' and they're telling atheists no,” he said. He said the foundation became involved after a county resident who is an atheist asked to give the meeting invocation and was denied by Scholes. The county has invitedÃâà...
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