Atheism

I’m not as much in the closet as I am ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell.’  Several of my friends know I’m an atheist and I don’t recall ever actually lying to anyone about it.  But I don’t get asked very often.  I do try to avoid the subject around people I …

Children today learn from their parents just like any other creature. Unfortunately for us they usually also follow their parents religion without a choice, many children these days think that their parents know what’s best when half the time they don’t and this causes kids to be christian when they …

Atheists have long been condemned to the idea of a meaningless existence. Religious people find the idea of atheism absurd and unbearable. Without a god to serve, what do you live for? If you believe that there is nothing after this life, then what point is there to living? What …

The kingdom of heaven is one of the more difficult Christian concepts to grasp, though Jesus described it often. Christ made it clear that the Kingdom of Heaven operates by spiritual rules related to those found on earth. He told the barest minimum in order that we may long for …

Mr. Cooper, I am a staff worker with the Jews for Jesus organization. What you claim as the “unfortunate truth” about us is completely untrue: that we target the children at Orthodox day schools! The truth is that we have an official policy that we will not interact with anyone …

Do people who believe in God also believe in Richard Dawkins? Richard Dawkins book, The God Delusion, has been out for years, but is still hotly debated. Dawkins laments that so many otherwise rational people, including up to 10% of scientists believe in God. The world “delusion” alludes to his …

The prime reason why not to believe in god is that god does not exist. I find it desperately sad that people cannot come to terms with the world and their life without needing an otherworldly supposed omnipotent being watching over them all the time. Another very good reason why …

Perhaps you have heard this question posed by those who desire to show that God does not exist. The rationale is this: Since God answers prayer, certainly there has been a believer who has had enough faith to pray for healing (really re-growing) of an amputeed limb. Since there are …

Skeptic Magazine is a magazine published by The Skeptics Society, an organization devoted to promoting scientific skepticism and resisting the spread of pseudo-science, superstition, and irrational beliefs. It was first published in the spring of 1992 and has a circulation of 50,000. It’s available by subscription or on major news-stands …

To address this question of compatibility between what one would call morality and a non-belief in God or any form of supernatural higher power theist underlies the existence of the universe/s the first question that really has to be dealt with is what do we mean by “morality” and how …