Clergy Come Out as Atheists
And “The Clergy Project” is there to serve as safe haven.
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Can a Progressive Atheist Defeat the Democrats’ “Family” Man in NC?
Is the faith-talking, centrist, “new breed” of Democrat like Heath Shuler on its way out?
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A Seminary for Nonbelievers: Is A. C. Grayling Creating His Own Religion?
Grayling’s New College of the Humanities “is not an atheist institution,” he and other spokespeople for the university have stated repeatedly. But it’s hard to imagine Richard Dawkins soft-pedaling on the topic of religion. Grayling insists that he’s not as vehement as his colleague. “I’m the velvet version,” he likes to say.
Read MoreObstacles for Secularists
The latest bloggingheads.
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An Atheist Hero is Something to Be
Faith is completely redundant. It may take a long time for people to figure out it’s redundant, but given what we know about psychology and the way the brain works and the way evolution has taught us not to just battle each other into submission, but to cooperate and help each other, there will come a time when people see it as unnecessary, a philosophical distortion of reality.
Read MoreCreationists and Dawkins Agree: Science Rules Religion
New anti-evolution legislation reiterates this odd agreement.
Read MoreIn 2012, Get to Know an Atheist
Our religious traditions remind us that it’s often those at the edges who speak the truth most clearly.
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Where Will Hitchens’ Soul Go?
An evangelical former debating partner claims the self-proclaimed antitheist is “lost forever.”
Read MoreAtheist Scientists in Church
Or, homebrew scientism…
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Silver Bells and Atheist Billboards
Dawkins points out in The God Delusion that many clergy are closet atheists. If they come out of the cupboard, they lose a career that they have spent many years and many thousands of dollars to attain. Isn’t it just easier to pretend? Considering that most career options to defrocked clergy (mainly unemployment) are hardly palatable, who can blame them? Statistics from Denmark and Sweden reveal what might never be politically correct among the United Saints of America—practical atheism abounds among churchgoing Christians and clergy.
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