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Is Atheism Increasing at the Expense of Theism?
By Gregory Paul
May 30, 2012
Print: Science and Religion Today
New results from a global survey reveal that in most surveyed countries, theism is losing ground to atheism.
How to tell if you’re an atheist
By Daniel Dennett
May 30, 2012
Print: The Washington Post
Might many self-avowed Christians and members of other faiths actually be atheists in spite of the fact that they don’t see themselves that way?
A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?
By Tom Bartlett
May 24, 2012
Print: Religion Dispatches
A reporter tracks down the remnants of Harold Camping’s apocalyptic movement and finds out you don’t have to be crazy to believe something nuts.
Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible
By Richard Dawkins
May 20, 2012
Print: The Guardian
The good book should be read as a great work of literature – but it is not a guide to morality, as the education secretary Michael Gove would have us believe
Texas’s war on history
By Katherine Stewart
May 19, 2012
Print: The Guardian
Christian-nationalist zealots are trying to rewrite US history, airbrush slavery and enshrine creationism in Texas schools
‘Dangerous atheists want to wipe out Christianity’: Cardinal warns atheism fosters violence
The Daily Mail
May 17, 2012
Print: The Daily Mail
Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic warned yesterday that secular atheists mean to wipe out Christianity.
More African-Americans Leaving Religious Faiths
By Subrina Hudson
May 15, 2012
Print: Intersections South LA
African-Americans are significantly more religious compared to the rest of the U.S. population, but a growing community of black atheists, like the Black Skeptics of Los Angeles, are steadily increasing each year.
Ultra-Orthodox Shun Their Own For Reporting Child Sexual Abuse
By Sharon Otterman and Ray Rivera
May 10, 2012
Print: The New York Times
In confronting Jewish laws that forbid airing allegations against fellow Jews or turning them in to the police, families of ultra-Orthodox victims who have been molested face intimidation by their communities.
On Knowing Your Enemy
By Sam Harris
May 7, 2012
Print: www.samharris.org
The most dangerous failing of secularism (and of moderate religion) is that its adherents cannot seem to grasp that some people really believe martyrdom is a path to Paradise.
A National Day of Reason?
By Herb Silverman
May 3, 2012
Print: The Washington Post
There would be no need for a National Day of Reason if there were not a government-endorsed National Day of Prayer.
Highly Religious People Are Less Motivated by Compassion Than Are Non-Believers
Science Daily
May 2, 2012
Print: Science Daily
New research suggests that the highly religious are less motivated by compassion when helping a stranger than are atheists, agnostics and less religious people.
‘The Time is Finished’: Religious Sect Erects Billboards Ahead of ‘Transformation’
By Armina Ligaya
May 2, 2012
Print: The National Post
The number 666 typically conjures up biblical symbolism tied to the Antichrist. But for one family that belongs to an obscure Christian sect, it’s a symbol of the upcoming day of reckoning.
Misogyny in the Middle East: The Real Elephant in the Room
By Ali A. Rizvi
May 1, 2012
Print: The Huffington Post
Saying that sexism and misogyny in the Middle East has “nothing to do” with Islam is symptomatic of either denial or fear.
