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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What if Richard Dawkins really makes a deathbed conversion?
[ 5 minutes to read] Richard Dawkins has spent much of his life arguing that there is almost certainly no God….
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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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There is no “me”, only a network of neurons
[ 9 minutes to read] We wake up every morning with an extraordinarily convincing impression. There is someone inside our heads….
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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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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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A circus came to the US. After years, the show was over
[ 2 minutes to read] Once upon a time, there was a country called the United States. Long ago, its politics…
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Is there an escape from the Orthodox Jewish community?
[ 6 minutes to read] People ask a simple question. Can someone leave a tightly structured religious world and build a…
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Navigating freethought and atheism in religious families
[ 4 minutes to read] Freethought and atheism rarely emerge in isolation. Instead, they develop inside environments shaped by tradition, authority,…
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My deepest disappointment with the 4 horsemen of New Atheism
[ 3 minutes to read] I once believed the success of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett proved…
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American religiousness: Decent or fanaticism?
[ 9 minutes to read] At first, religion in America looks normal. You see churches, you hear references to God. You…
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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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Raising children in a secular household
[ 4 minutes to read] Raising children in a secular household does not mean raising them in a moral vacuum. On…
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How US atheist education should look like
[ 6 minutes to read] Atheist education does not mean teaching disbelief as a new dogma. It means teaching how to…
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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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Freethought and the neuroscience of belief
[ 5 minutes to read] Freethought begins in the brain. It does not start with atheism, philosophy, or rebellion. It starts…
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Media representation of non-believers: Stereotypes and stigma
[ 7 minutes to read] Define “non-believers” (atheists, agnostics, secular people) as an often-misunderstood minority. Note that surveys regularly find atheists…
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We want state atheism, but not the Chinese one
[ 6 minutes to read] Humanity stands between two worlds. One still kneels before invisible gods, while the other slowly rises…
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No heaven, no rebirth, no return
[ 3 minutes to read] Religions have one thing in common. They cannot accept the end. Death terrifies them. Nothingness feels…
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God’s will is unknowable, making it meaningless
[ < 1 minute to read] The phrase “God’s will” has guided billions across centuries. It is invoked to justify wars, defend…
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God cannot think
[ < 1 minute to read] The idea that God can think sounds simple, but it collapses the moment you look deeper….
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What will happen to a small group of U.S. atheists?
[ 3 minutes to read] Atheists are a small but significant group in the United States. They number in the millions,…
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Either you are a believer or an atheist, not an agnostic
[ 5 minutes to read] Agnosticism is not a worldview. It is a lack of one. People often present it as…
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The politician who mentions atheists – And what happens
[ 6 minutes to read] Atheists are among the least spoken groups in political life. Politicians refer to every kind of…
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The biggest loser of all time? God!
[ 4 minutes to read] God is praised as the creator of everything. The almighty ruler. The ultimate source of love,…
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Atheist lies, religious truths
[ 4 minutes to read] I stumbled upon a profile with a solid number of subscribers. Its motto was simple and…
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Does morality make sense? How did we get here?
[ 6 minutes to read] Morality is one of the strangest human inventions. It shapes our lives, our politics, our wars,…
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When God inspires laughter: Culture and religion collide
[ 3 minutes to read] Religion does not mean the same thing everywhere. In one country it inspires reverence, in another…
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Peter Thiel: IQ 160 and still believes in Christianity
[ 4 minutes to read] It sounds impossible. A person with an IQ of 160 — one in 31,560 — believing…
