Celebrity atheists such as Richard Dawkins appear to claim the moral high ground when it comes to violence. Dawkins, along with Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens, insist that because ...

The most common critique leveled at New Atheists is that we attack only puerile, fundamentalist forms of religion, and never engage with the “best” arguments of the faithful: those adumbrated by ...

Recently there has been a flurry of books from the "New Atheists." Such figures as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have been holding forth to state . . . well, ...

The other day when I was searching for the meaning of the logical fallacy called "special pleading" I came across this website here: . On this website was this definition of the fallacy: Example #2: ...

GLADSTONE: Gary Wolf wrote about the new atheists in Wired magazine. He says that the blunt tactics used by the new atheists cannot be applied to personal arguments over faith, where delicate family ...

In this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, Ricky Gervais wrote a long, non-comedic piece on why he’s an atheist. You’re not going to get many laughs out of it, but it’s a really interesting and ...

March 4, 2007 — -- This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case brought by a group of atheists who claim the Bush administration's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives ...

The Catholic philosopher (and former atheist) Edward Feser has a great post up discerning among types of atheism, and why the most popular form of atheism today is the worst, most irrational sort.

The US District Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] on Tuesday rejected [text, PDF] atheist Michael Newdow’s argument that “In God We Trust” violates the US Constitution and ...

Religious beliefs are remarkably various. But sometimes it can seem that there is only one way to be an atheist: asserting, on the basis of reasoned argument, that belief in God is irrational. The ...

Perhaps more people don't identify as atheist because there are so many misconceptions about what it means to be one. All too often, a sentence as simple as "I don't believe in God," is heard as a ...