Religious ethos outweighs racial disadvantage in English school admissions ruling
[ 3 minutes to read] A Black Christian child missed out on a place at his local Church of England school…
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Richard Dawkins finally loses faith in Elon Musk
[ 2 minutes to read] Richard Dawkins once regarded Elon Musk as a hero. Now, the evolutionary biologist and prominent atheist…
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If your religion needs blasphemy laws, how strong is your God?
[ 4 minutes to read] God created the universe. He knows every thought, commands eternity, and will judge the living and…
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Would you accept your own religious argument from another religion?
[ 5 minutes to read] A Christian describes feeling Jesus during prayer. A Muslim describes finding certainty in the Quran. A…
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Did Jesus exist? Methods and bias
[ 13 minutes to read] Whether Jesus of Nazareth existed often looks like a simple question with a simple answer. Christians…
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Britain’s Christian nationalism, empty churches
[ 3 minutes to read] A person can defend a Christian nation without spending much time in church. New research from…
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Children in Iraq face ISIS trials amid torture concerns
[ 2 minutes to read] At least 157 children are among thousands of detainees transferred from northeastern Syria to Iraq over…
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Federal court clears path for first religious public charter school in the U.S.
[ 4 minutes to read] For more than two centuries, the United States has wrestled with where government ends and religion…
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The biology and environment behind religiosity
[ 5 minutes to read] Why do some people become deeply religious while others remain indifferent or reject religion altogether? The…
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39% of Northern Ireland’s 16-year-olds now say they have no religion
[ 4 minutes to read] Northern Ireland has spent generations divided along religious lines. For a growing share of its youngest…
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Jesus! What the Bible sounds like in the first person
[ 8 minutes to read] The Bible is not Jesus’ autobiography. The Gospels are narratives about Jesus, written largely in the…
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Can social media destroy the historical Jesus?
[ 4 minutes to read] Social media cannot prove Jesus never existed. But it can destroy something else—the widespread assumption that…
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Pete Hegseth accused of attacking atheists and non-Christians
[ 4 minutes to read] U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has come under criticism from secular organizations after attacking a religious-freedom…
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Russia sends saint’s bones to Ukraine front: A new low in religious manipulation
[ 4 minutes to read] In a move that strains credulity even by the standards of wartime propaganda, the Russian Orthodox…
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Freethinking students organize against religious coercion in U.S. public schools
[ 3 minutes to read] A growing number of nonreligious students in the United States are organizing to defend their right…
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Where did belief in God decline? And the sad news: The 21st century will still be a century of religion
[ 6 minutes to read] For anyone expecting religion simply to disappear as education, science and technology advance, the first decades…
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The spectrum of religious repression: From social pressure to death
[ 23 minutes to read] Religious repression does not always arrive with police officers, prison cells or executioners. Sometimes it arrives…
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God loves you and has a list of conditions
[ 8 minutes to read] God loves you. This is probably one of the most comforting sentences Christianity has ever produced….
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What Heaven really looks like according to the Bible
[ 47 minutes to read] Few subjects have fascinated humanity more than heaven. Every civilization has imagined a paradise awaiting the…
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The neuroscience of prayer
[ 9 minutes to read] For thousands of years, believers have regarded prayer as a conversation with God. They have viewed…
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The evolution of Satan: A God’s servant and the Prince of evil
[ 20 minutes to read] You think you know him, of course. The red skin, the horns, the pitchfork, the tail….
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The curse of privilege: Why I don’t believe in free will
[ 19 minutes to read] Every successful person enjoys hearing that they deserve everything they have achieved. Society constantly celebrates hard…
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The Amish, the Hasidic, and the Taliban: Who is more extreme?
[ 14 minutes to read] It is a comparison that appears surprisingly often. Images of Amish horse-drawn buggies, Hasidic Jews in…
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The Death of the Ideal: Materialism and the Loss of Spiritual Meaning
[ 1 minute to read] Modern archaeology has devoted enormous effort to uncovering physical proof of biblical narratives, from the search…
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Neuroscience behind immigrant integration
[ 4 minutes to read] Public debates about immigrant integration in Europe often revolve around economics, law, or cultural values. However,…
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Vatican and Royal Family: Are we living in the Middle Ages?
[ 6 minutes to read] We like to believe we live in a rational, secular, democratic age, we imagine crowns belong…
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Atheists talking to believers who are certain Christ existed
[ 4 minutes to read] This conversation rarely starts as a historical discussion. Instead, it almost always begins as a defense…
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Where the next Richard Dawkins will come from?
[ 3 minutes to read] Public culture prefers comforting myths. It likes to believe that influential intellectuals emerge spontaneously, driven only…
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New Systematic Review shows: God is in the Synapses: Why Religion Is Just Your Brain Talking to Itself
[ 2 minutes to read] The Neuroscience of Religion: What Science Reveals About Faith and the Brain Religion has long claimed…
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The bloody and brutal history of church building
[ 8 minutes to read] This evolutionary adaptation—or by-product—led us to build churches. But it also brought blood. I have found…
