Atheism

By Valerie Tarico

By Jameson Parker

By Jack Jenkins

By Adam Higginbotham

By The National Secular Society

Credit Mohamed Messara/European Pressphoto Agency By Carlotta Gall The secular Nidaa Tounes party won the largest number of seats in Tunisia’s parliamentary elections on Monday, defeating its main rival, the Islamist party Ennahda, which just three years ago swept to power as the North African nation celebrated the fall of its longtime dictator in the Arab Spring revolution. …

The following is an excerpt of Happily Godless: Humanism for a Better World  by Tony Akkermans: Once upon a time there was, in the Western world at least, but a single god. Closely defined with clear-cut attributes. Omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnibenevolent. In fact so many omnies that from here on in I shall refer to him …

iStockphoto By Adam Frank “Spiritual But Not Religious” is a phrase you hear more and more these days — and with good reason. In 2012, a Pew Foundation survey on religion found that almost 20 percent of Americans placed themselves in the category of “unaffiliated.” That 20 percent unaffiliated translates into a whole lot of people. It’s …

By Ryan Saylor They have only hosted one meeting, but a new student organization at Van Buren High School is already making waves after more than 60 students attended the first meeting of the Secular Student Alliance (SSA) – the only such alliance among Arkansas’ public high schools. Senior Aaron Centeno helped found the new student group …

By Henry L. Carrigan Jr. In 1950, fewer than 5 percent of Americans were nonreligious. Sixty years later, in 2010, as Phil Zuckerman writes in his new book, Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions(Penguin, Dec.), that number had jumped to 16 percent, according to the Pew Research Religion and Public Life Project (with a smaller …

By Herb Silverman A while back I wrote about the War On Christmas manufactured by Fox News, in which saying “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” was somehow taken as an insult to Christians. Then I wrote about the War on Thanksgiving, again manufactured by Fox News after President Obama gave a three-minute Thanksgiving Day speech without the …

Image from YouTube Please note that this story is coming from a citizen journalist and has not been independently confirmed. On the 25th of October 2014, in a nice street in Alexandria Egypt, a young man and his pregnant wife “Ahmad Husain Al-Harkan & sally” encountered a grim attempt of assassination. Al-Harkan is an Egyptian activist …