Nigeria’s Embattled Humanists
Humanist International’s 2021 Freedom of Thought Report suggests that restrictions on freedom of expression are by and large most severe in the Muslim majority countries of Africa and the Middle…
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Why We Should Treat the Bible as Literature, Not Scripture
In the 17 May 2021 episode of his podcast, Jordan Peterson talks to Stephen Fry about how atheists view the moral value of mythology. (Fry, a well-known atheist, is also…
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Secularism and American Pluralism
In this 2018 article, Shadi Hamid discusses the importance of a “modest” American pluralism that can accommodate the fact that “there isn’t a common good to be found; that, because…
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The Spectre of Atheism: “Leaving the Allah Delusion Behind” by Ibn Warraq
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of…
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Does Secularism Lead to Racism? A Review of “Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race and Civilization, 1850–1914” by Nathan G. Alexander
Towards the end of his recent book on atheism and racism, Nathan G. Alexander argues that our understanding of the American black civil rights movement is obscured by the towering…
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Scouting Without Faith
I met my husband the summer before our junior year in high school. He had already achieved the rank of Eagle in The Boy Scouts of America (BSA). In those…
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Replacing Religion: How Secularism Has Failed and How It Can Succeed
Imagine a world in which individuals based their opinions on reason. Now, it is all but a certainty that human beings will at times fail to use logic in their…
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Chaos during Social Justice and Feminism Debate at Milwaukee Atheism Conference
Sparks flew at the 2017 MythCon conference on Saturday when British YouTuber and cultural critic Carl Benjamin, aka Sargon of Akkad, exchanged verbal blows and jabs with his interviewer, Thomas…
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The Magic Three-Letter Word
One day when I was in elementary school, I asked my teacher if he believed in God. For weeks, he had been telling us all these nice stories about Yahweh…
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Where Now for New Atheists?
“New Atheism” is dead. This is what we are told by many people both positive and hostile to the New Atheist approach and to a large extent they are right.…
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Why Accepting Mortality Leads to a Better Life — Living Life in Light of Death
In Life in Light of Death, James A. Lindsay urges readers to fully, consciously accept that they will cease to exist. He describes the negative social and personal consequences of…
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From Al Qaeda to Atheism
Below you will find my interview with Yasmine Mohammed. Yasmine first came to my attention when I saw that many of the same people who had liked my Facebook page…
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The Atheist Atrocities Fallacy — Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot
Religious apologists, particularly those of the Christian variety, are big fans of what I have dubbed, the atheist atrocities fallacy. Christians commonly employ this fallacy to shield their egos from the harsh reality…
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