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Religious believers may seem to share little with nonbelievers when it comes to thinking and judgment. But a new study by UCLA researchers finds that both Christians and nonbelievers use the same parts of the brain when asked to label articles of religious faith as true or false. A report summarizing the study is published today in PLoS ONE.

This study was funded, in part, by Project Reason.

The atheist writers Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have presented us with a choice: either you don’t believe in God or you’re a dope.

The ‘war’ between science and religion is stuck in a rut. Can we change the record now, asks Philip Ball?

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.

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

Christian-nationalist zealots are trying to rewrite US history, airbrush slavery and enshrine creationism in Texas schools

Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic warned yesterday that secular atheists mean to wipe out Christianity.

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.

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.

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.

There would be no need for a National Day of Reason if there were not a government-endorsed National Day of Prayer.

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 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.

Saying that sexism and misogyny in the Middle East has “nothing to do” with Islam is symptomatic of either denial or fear.

A series of new experiments shows that analytic thinking can override intuitive assumptions, including those that underlie religious belief.

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

Under the pretext of parental ‘choice’, the right is using vouchers to establish religion in public education – with Romney’s blessing.

A growing tide of young Americans is drifting away from the religions of their childhood — and most of them are ending up in no religion at all.

In recent years, non-believers have begun to demand recognition, speaking out against religious-based public policy, and opposing the vilification of secularity.

The Global Atheist Convention, held April 13-15 in Melbourne, was one of the largest congregations of atheists in the world, and it was in a sense a seminal moment.

A bill that allows Tennessee public school teachers to teach alternatives to mainstream scientific theories such as evolution will become law this month.

Nine Catholic devotees in the Philippines marked Good Friday by reenacting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, with real nails driven through their hands and feet.

Christopher Hitchens’ take on Easter from a 2006 Slate article.