Atheism News

Muldrow - An Oklahoma teen and his sister are facing harassment after he contacted the nation's leading atheist group in a bid to have the biblical Ten Commandments removed from every classroom of his public high school.

A feature-length film from Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss asks which is more important - to explain science or to destroy religion.

London - Two British comedians have started a "church" for atheists in the UK. Some say it is the start of an atheist religion, others just think it is a "congregation of unreligious people."

Sydney - The “atheism industry” was already getting on my nerves. Most of these people I already suspected of being bandwagon-jumpers. Now, they’re becoming alternative moralists.

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released a new analysis that says that the number of the 113th US Congress not identifying with a specific religions faith is larger than compared to the previous US Congresses.

Whenever Fox News blowhards like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity or other reactionary hotheads spout off about the so-called "War on Christmas" being mercilessly waged by the ne'er-do-well forces of secularism, or worse, atheism, I always have to laugh.

Atheism, the position of not believing in a God or the acknowledgment that in fact there never was God? Either way the topic is creating a back lash of controversy among religious leaders and followers alike.

If one was to describe today’s Iran as being schizophrenic, they might be onto something. On one hand, huge billboards and murals proudly proclaim its status as an Islamic Republic.

London - Professor Ted Cantle, an expert on community cohesion, argues that state funding of multiculturalism is turning Britain into a divided society.

Religion is in decline, according to a global survey. The study found only 59 percent of the world's population self identify as religious. The study found 13 percent identified as atheist, with a further 23 percent as "not religious".