Christopher Hitchens’ 2010 article calling for the prosecution of the Catholic priests who abused children, and the men who covered it up.

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Salman Rushdie’s 1999 essay to the six billionth living person.

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Over two decades after the fatwa issued on Salman Rushdie, violence continues, and Muslim fundamentalists have gained a new advantage: media self-censorship.

Text and video of Carl Sagan’s famous ‘Pale Blue Dot’ speech.

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Sam Harris demonstrates how religious faith is a “perpetual motion machine of wishful thinking” in this 2007 article.

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What do people mean when they refer to a “militant atheist”? Is there really such a thing?

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In a provocative essay from December 2010, writer and comedian Ricky Gervais explains why he remains an avowed atheist.

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The finding that religion scarcely influences moral intuition undermines the idea that a godless society will be immoral, says Philip Ball. Whether it ‘explains’ religion is another matter.

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Earlier this year, Andrew Zak Williams asked public figures why they believe in God. Now it’s the turn of the atheists – from A C Grayling to P Z Myers – to explain why they don’t.

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In this excerpt from his 1995 book, The Demon Haunted World, Carl Sagan offers his famous analogy of claims for the existence of a god.

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Are there people who believe only somewhat that there are no supernatural entities in the universe - or only part of a god?

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Frans de Waal examines how the behavior of primates sheds light on the origins of the sense of right and wrong in human beings.

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Sam Harris elaborates on his theory of scientific morality, in a rebuttal to a critique by physicist Sean Carroll.

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Congress loves abstinence-only programs so much it has thrown big bucks at them. The public? It’s got better ideas.

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Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can—and should—be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.

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Ingersoll describes in detail why he does not find the Bible to be a moral guide.  He illustrates his point with examples from various books and teachings within the Old and New Testaments.

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Penn Jillete discusses the lack of evidence for God and the richness of life based on reality rather than the supernatural.

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A short explanation on why morality does not derive from scriptures and a comic pictoral montage.

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The author discusses misconceptions about Atheism, including that “Atheism is a Denial of God That Requires Faith,” “Atheists Lead Meaningless Lives of Despair Without Love or Beauty,” “Atheists Worship Satan, Themselves, Money, or Some Other God,” and more.

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Adam Carolla discusses being an atheist.

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