Tag: atheist

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.

But it is perfectly possible to be both an atheist and an agnostic, depending on how one defines the terms.

Atheism (we're at the start of a sentence here, so it gets capitalized that way) is not a doctrine apart from lack of believe in supernatural entities.

A lot of folks want to know how to get a friend or a family member to participate – or participate more often or more deeply – in church.

The same question would, of course, be faced by many religious people should their versions of an afterlife turn out to be wildly mistaken.

Earlier this month, NFL star Arian Foster, a running back for the Houston Texans, sent ripples through the world of professional football when he came out as a nonbeliever in the pages of ESPN The Magazine.

As most people do not live in places where there religion isn't the majority, it is all too easy for individual religions to imagine the issue only in terms of their own belief or non, not a smorgasbord of equally certain convictions that are quite mutually exclusive as doctrinal packages.