In the past year, biologist and author Richard Dawkins has become the target of heavy criticism regarding his tweets on transgender people. Dawkins, who is best known as one of the “Four Horsemen of the New Atheist movement and for his best-selling books, The God Delusion, The Blind Watchmaker, and Outgrowing God, exposed a contradiction […]

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It was 10 years ago today that the largest gathering of atheists (agnostics, skeptics, humanists & free-thinkers) in world history occurred. The 2012 Reason Rally, a successor to the 2002 Godless Americans March on Washington wasn’t expected to have the greatest amount of success on that cold rainy day. Christopher Hitchens passed away a few […]

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Some years ago, Phil Zuckerman, a sociology professor at Pitzer College, wrote a crisply argued, engaging book titled ‘Society Without God.’ He maintained that low levels of religious belief do not increase immoral behavior. On the contrary, using empirical evidence, he pointed out that countries with low levels of religious belief, in particular Denmark and […]

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