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Davide Mastracci: New Atheists, Old Tricks

2013-05-13T15:00:44Z

I am an atheist because I tend to not believe in things I have no evidence for. Yet New Atheists believe scores of myths, with no evidence, about Muslims and Islam.

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Number Of Canadians With 'No Religion' On The Rise

2013-05-15T23:08:02Z

By Ron Csillag
Religion News Service

TORONTO (RNS) A new national study shows that while Canada remains overwhelmingly Christian, Canadians are tu...

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Chris Stedman: Including LGBTQ Voices In Interfaith Work

2013-05-14T14:22:12Z

I feel more convinced than ever that interfaith efforts should include LGBTQ voices; if such work is intended to bring together people with different and sometimes contradicting convictions and identities, then it has to.

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Ali A. Rizvi: Why I Call Myself An 'Atheist Muslim'

2013-05-13T12:38:39Z

Just like Judaism is a religion that can exist independently from Jewish ethnicity or Jewish culture, Islam is a religion, and even though Muslims are ethnically and racially varied, there really is such a thing as a Muslim culture that can exist separately from Islam.

Read more: Islam, Atheism, Judaism, Ramadan, Apostasy, Quran, Christianity, Atheist Muslim, Religion and Culture, Biblical Literalism, Religion News

Richard W. Kropf: Religion, Secularity And Suicide

2013-05-07T18:32:33Z

We all know, or think we do, what religion is. Nor is there any question in anyone's mind regarding the finality of suicide. But regardless of all the ranting against secularism by churchmen or religionists, there seems to be quite a bit of confusion on the subject.

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Rabbi Adam Jacobs: An Open Letter To The Theist Community

2013-05-07T13:32:33Z

In the same way as you would never use a Stradivarius as a door stop or a Porsche as a plough, we must strive to not cause the masses to believe that authentic, transformational, brilliant and beautiful spirituality is just so much vapor.

Read more: God, Spirituality, Ethics, Judaism, Atheism, Spiritual but Not Religious, Jewish Parenting, Religious Hypocrisy, Religious Leadership, Authentic Spirituality, Religious Nones, Religion News

Rabbi David Wolpe: Is Richard Dawkins Really The World's Leading Intellectual?

2013-05-07T10:36:19Z

Dawkins on biology is an elegant, lucid and even enchanting explicator of science. Dawkins on religion is historically uninformed, outrageously partisan and morally obtuse. If Dawkins is indeed our best, the life of the mind is in a precarious state.

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Richard Abrons: A Good Life Without God

2013-05-06T17:13:07Z

Big topic. All encompassing. From Ra to Zeus to Moses to Jesus to Muhammad to Buddah. From Cotton Mather to Rush Limbaugh. From the Crusades to Shiites and Sunnis. Well, leave me out.

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Mickey Roundtree: Face To Faith: Befriending An Atheist In Mormon Country

2013-05-06T07:59:26Z

As a girl who grew up in the LDS Church, having friends who are part of religions that contradict my own is really uncommon.

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Bangladesh Clashes Rage Over Blasphemy Law

2013-05-06T06:49:25Z

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Police banned all rallies in Bangladesh's capital through midnight Monday after at least 27 people died in clashes between p...

Read more: Anti-Blasphemy Laws, Islam, Video, Secular Laws, Atheism, Islamic Hardliners, Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh, Awami League, Blasphemy, Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh Clashes, World News

Ali A. Rizvi: An Atheist Muslim's Perspective On The 'Root Causes' Of Islamist Jihadism And The Politics Of Islamophobia

2013-05-03T22:09:00Z

Muslims have rightly complained about the Israeli government labeling them anti-Semitic for legitimate criticism of Israeli policy, but today Muslims (along with liberal apologist allies) are doing the same thing with their broad use of the "Islamophobia" label against the "new atheists."

Read more: Islam, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Atheism, Asra Nomani, Boston Marathon Bombing, Thomas Jefferson, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Islamophobia, Jihad, Religion, Toronto Terror, Bigotry, Barbary Pirates, Terrorism, Islamist Jihadism, Islamism, Islamist Jihad, World News

Pentagon Debunks Reports Of Anti-Christian Policies

2013-05-02T18:04:38Z

By David Gibson
Religion News Service

(RNS) Christian conservatives have grown increasingly alarmed in recent weeks over reports and rumors that ...

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Sandra Charron: Believers, Atheists, Why Can't We All Get Along?

2013-05-02T11:37:35Z

The energy and ardor we see flung with feverish force at the sight of certain key words would be far more beneficial if harnessed and used to rid the world of its eternal anger and insults.

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Rev. Michael Dowd: Idolatry Of The Written Word

2013-05-01T16:32:49Z

Christianity is shipwrecked on the rock of "biblical authority." Twelve hundred people a day leave the church. The Bible, once an asset, has become a liability.

Read more: Scripture Study, Religion and Science, Revelation, Scripture Commentary, Christianity, Atheism, Idolatry, Teachings of Jesus, New Atheism, Religion News

Usaama al-Azami: Is Richard Dawkins a Racist?

2013-04-29T00:34:20Z

Dawkins and his fellows may remonstrate that what they object to is a belief system, freely adopted by its holders, but they are still participating in the unhealthy marginalization of a minority group.

Read more: Islamophobia, New Atheists, Richard Dawkins Atheism, Xenophobia, Sam Harris, Racism, Nazism, Al Qaeda, Atheism, Religion News

Tara Brach: The Mystery of Who We Are

2013-04-26T15:45:45Z

Probably the deepest inquiry in any of the spiritual traditions is the question, "Who am I?" If we look behind the roles and images that our culture gives us, behind the ideas that we internalize from our family, who's really here?

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Greg M. Epstein: Healing Must Be For Everyone, Including The Nonreligious

2013-04-26T14:20:21Z

Including the nonreligious in interfaith ceremonies doesn't have any negative impact on religious communities. It's not about anything other than inclusion in America. Let's make that happen for the good of all.

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Atheists Rally Around Jailed Bangladeshi Bloggers

2013-04-25T14:15:20Z

By Kimberly Winston
Religion News Service

(RNS) An international consortium of nonbelievers is planning rallies Thursday (April 25) outside Bangl...

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Edward Falzon: A Secular Interfaith Sermon For Boston

2013-04-24T14:33:06Z

In the Boston interfaith service, though there were some words of comfort that dispensed with religious phrasing, a secular humanist could be forgiven for being distracted and put off by the repeated invocations to the Abrahamic god.

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Daniel Cox: Is Atheism Only For The Upper Class?

2013-04-24T10:22:07Z

One of the more notable findings from a recent American Values Survey analysis is that atheists and agnostics have significantly higher socio-economic status than either secular Americans or unattached believers.

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Scott Stephens: Richard Dawkins And The Unbearable Smugness Of Tweeting

2013-04-23T17:14:10Z

Dawkins' views on religion are by now extremely well-known, to the point of cultural saturation thanks to the media's fixation with him. But the dogmatic assertions and withering dismissals that made Dawkins a media-darling lend themselves particularly well to the anarchic medium of Twitter, where his unjustifiable claims can shrug off any residual requirement for justification.

Read more: Atheism, Islam, Scripture Commentary, New Atheism, Religion and Journalism, Richard Dawkins, Mehdi Hasan, Belief in Scripture, Belief in God, Religion News

Freedom House: In Religious Freedom Debate, Nonbelievers Must Not Be Ignored

2013-04-23T13:52:45Z

by Billy Ford,
Senior Program Associate, International Religious Freedom
and
Cyrus Rassool,
Program Associate, Regional Programs

According to a 20...

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Allan Brawley: We Need a Nonbelievers' Liberation Movement

2013-04-23T12:13:28Z

We need a nonbelievers' rights movement that will encourage more people to come out of the closet and help free the country -- and the world -- from destructive sectarian conflict.

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China Aims To Banish Superstition, Promote Knowledge

2013-04-21T01:47:00Z

By Ben Blanchard BEIJING, April 21 (Reuters) - China is struggling to get its estimated 100 million religious believers to banish sup...

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Nathaniel Frank: After Boston: Can You Have Faith Without God?

2013-04-19T14:08:29Z

Should we have to adopt a belief we don't really hold in order to feel part of the larger American family who were collectively targeted on Monday, and who are grieving and searching for answers as part of one people?

Read more: Boston Marathon Bombing, Atheism, Doubt, Faith, Terrorism, President Obama, Boston Marathon Explosion, Boston Bombings Suspect, Boston Bombing, Politics News