Atheism Research Articles

Investigating Atheism

Investigating Atheism

Atheism explained: from folly to philosophy

Atheism explained: from folly to philosophy

Philosophers without God

Philosophers without God

Masked Atheism: Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home, by Maria LaMonaca

<i>Masked Atheism: Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home</i>, by Maria LaMonaca

Paul Johnson wonders whether Darwin would have put atheist slogans on buses

Paul Johnson wonders whether Darwin would have put atheist slogans on buses

Atheism and the Argument from Harm

Atheism and the Argument from Harm

Masked atheism: Catholicism and the secular Victorian home

Masked atheism: Catholicism and the secular Victorian home

Waiting for Spiritual Atheists

Waiting for Spiritual Atheists

GOOD WITHOUT GOD

In the fifth of our articles on “Good without God”, Richard Norman explains why he believes we can be good without God.

The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God, by George Weigel

The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God, by George Weigel

Explanatory Atheism

Explanatory Atheism

The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine by Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath

The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine by Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath

MORALITY WITH AND WITHOUT GOD

It began with a lie. Perhaps not a big lie, at least I didn't think so at the time, but a lie nevertheless. My Vicar had taken me for an interview with our Bishop following my application, supported by him, to undergo ordination training. My Vicar had prepared me well except that he never warned me that I would be asked if I was sure that I had a vocation. I had to hazard a guess at what this question meant. I wanted to be a clergyman like the Vicar and I sensed that if I answered: “No”, to the bishop's question, I probably wouldn't be proceeding much further. So I said “Yes”, not really knowing what I was committing myself to. Later I worked out that the question was meant to reassure the bishop that I had had a word from God. At the end, many, many years later, when I admitted to myself that there really wasn't a god, it was the same question that rose up to meet me. By then I had to admit that I had never, ever had a word from God.

Sources: Dictionary of Atheism, Skepticism, and Humanism

Sources: Dictionary of Atheism, Skepticism, and Humanism

Arguing for Atheism

The God Delusion . By Richard Dawkins . Bantam, London, 2006. 416 pp. £20. ISBN 9780593055489. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2006. $27, C$35.95. ISBN 9780618680009. The author argues that we would gain much if we relegated religious beliefs to our history.

Angels and Atheists

Angels and Atheists

Deities for Atheists

Civilized Life in the Universe . Scientists on Intelligent Extraterrestrials. By George Basalla . Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005. 247 pp. $29.95, £17.95. ISBN 0-19-517181-0. Examining claims of scientists from Aristotle to Hawking, the author traces the cascading influence of speculation about the existence of civilized life on other planets.

On Stone's Evidential Atheism*

On Stone's Evidential Atheism*

Address of the Atheist Forum to the President of Ukraine and the Minister of Education on the introduction of the Christian Ethics course into public schools

Ми, громадяни України, які за своїми світоглядними переконаннями є атеїстами, або ж відкрито не відносимо себе до жодної релігійної конфесії, глибоко стурбовані намірами Міністерства освіти та науки з 1 вересня цього року ввести в шкільний курс предмет «Етика віри». В своєму неприйнятті цього заходу ми виходимо з таких аргументів

Rational Mothers and Infidel Gentlemen: Gender and American Atheism, 1865–1915

Rational Mothers and Infidel Gentlemen: Gender and American Atheism, 1865–1915