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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They won’t admit Jesus didn’t exist. It is the opium of the people
[ 2 minutes to read] The establishment will not admit the truth. The media will not say it. Rich interest groups…
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Trump’s attempt to deport pro-Palestinian students for their speech suffers a major court defeat
[ 4 minutes to read] The Trump administration wanted to use immigration law against international students who criticized Israel or publicly…
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The end of separation of church and state?
[ 7 minutes to read] For more than two centuries, one principle has occupied a special place in American political culture:…
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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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Should priests be allowed to keep child abuse secret?
[ 8 minutes to read] Imagine a man enters a church, sits across from a priest and admits that he has…
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Born Guilty: The History of Witchcraft Accusations Against Children in Northern Nigeria
[ 5 minutes to read] In March 2024, a young boy in Alkaleri Local Government Area, Bauchi State, reportedly lost his…
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Priests, pastors and predators: America’s continuing church abuse scandal
[ 12 minutes to read] For generations, American churches presented themselves as places where parents could safely leave their children. Priests…
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God didn’t say that. Neither did your pastor. AI did
[ 10 minutes to read] Imagine scrolling through social media one evening when your pastor appears on the screen. His face…
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Nigeria’s Muslims and Christians agree on something: Stop dividing us
[ 8 minutes to read] Nigeria is often described through its divisions. Muslim north and Christian south, Hausa and Fulani, farmer…
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The social media utopia: What if people started collaborating?
[ 8 minutes to read] Social media promised to connect humanity. Instead, it often became extraordinarily efficient at sorting humanity into…
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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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Can religion turn gay people straight?
[ 8 minutes to read] Imagine discovering that you are gay and being informed that the solution is remarkably straightforward. You…
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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 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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Megachurches, private jets, big money. We are real Christians
[ 13 minutes to read] There is a man in America. He has three private jets, a mansion with gold-plated faucets,…
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Zohran Mamdani: No distinction between radical and secular Islam
[ 5 minutes to read] The election of New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, once again exposed one of the…
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The Bible: Killing children, rape, homosexuality and much more
[ 27 minutes to read] Few books have shaped human civilization as profoundly as the Bible. It has inspired magnificent works…
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Christian hell is worse than Jewish hell
[ 3 minutes to read] Skeptics often charge the Old Testament God with violence. They point to floods, plagues, and conquered…
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Even the Pope can be sometimes right
[ 3 minutes to read] I am not only an atheist, but I also dispute central tenets of Christianity. I believe…
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Christians and Jews: Who are the chosen people?
[ 5 minutes to read] The idea looks simple at first. One God. One truth. One chosen people. However, the moment…
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Christianity without Christ: What survives and what vanishes?
[ 5 minutes to read] Christianity rests on a historical claim. A person existed. Events happened. Teachings emerged from that reality….
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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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How rival Christian groups corrupted the Bible
[ 5 minutes to read] Most Christians imagine the Bible as a stable and unified book. They assume the same message…
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As time went on, chroniclers claimed to know more about Jesus
[ 4 minutes to read] At first glance, one expects a simple pattern. A real person lives, acts, influences others, and…
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Jesus non-existence on X. Is it Freethinkers International’s work?
[ 2 minutes to read] Over the last months, I started to notice something unusual on X. Suddenly, many Christians defend…
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The Bible cannot withstand scrutiny: The invention of Jesus
[ 5 minutes to read] The Bible claims authority. It claims revelation. It claims moral and metaphysical finality. Yet historical method…
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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…
