Tag: atheist

Pope Francis delivered another criticism of some members of his own Church on Thursday, suggesting it is better to be an atheist than one of "many" Catholics who he said lead a hypocritical double life.

It is true that natural human societies have religious beliefs.

There is no way for religion to disappear because it comes from the way our brains function.

The perennial "why is there something rather than nothing" question that has vexed philosophers of all stripes for a long time.

The first time the Ten Commandments are given is in Exodus 20 When God speaks audibly from Mount Sinai to the whole people.

As a non-believer and secularist who thinks that blasphemy laws are intrinsically, universally abhorrent and that individual conscience to be free to believe without coercion or pressure is at the very core of what it means to be a freethinker, I was happy to see the largely college-student audience attending Ahmed’s talk popularly rejecting the Islamophobia that was his subject.

A California atheist who once argued against the Pledge of Allegiance before the Supreme Court has launched a federal legal challenge to the phrase “In God We Trust” on American currency.