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  • Atheists Increasingly Attending Divinity Schools

    Atheists Increasingly Attending Divinity Schools0

    A new phenomenon is happening in prominent American divinity schools: the student body increasingly includes secular, non-religious individuals. According to the New York Times, this shift is not driven by atheist students seeking to invade and overtake the realms of religiosity, but is rather by students seeking “a language of moral discourse and training in

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  • Atheists Are More Likely to Believe in Aliens. Why?

    Atheists Are More Likely to Believe in Aliens. Why?1

    Last fall, Chapman University released a survey on paranormal fears. Two of the questions asked about belief in aliens. The results indicate that 24 percent of Americans believe aliens visited the Earth in recent years, while 27 percent believe they did so in ancient times. While such numbers are surprising, they’re even more startling when

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  • Atheist Philosopher Describes His Fascinating Near-Death Experience

    Atheist Philosopher Describes His Fascinating Near-Death Experience0

    Most students of philosophy will recognize the name of A.J. Ayer, who died in 1989. An atheist, he was one of the best-known representatives of a school of thought known as “logical positivism,” which holds (among other things) that religious claims are meaningless because they are not empirically verifiable. It’s therefore interesting to note that

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  • Atheist Community: Too Many Atheists Embracing ‘Troubling’ Morals0

    In recent years, the atheist movement in North America has begun to experience institutional rot. For example, in May, “Eiynah,” an ex-Muslim atheist based in Toronto, Canada, denounced at her Nice Mangoes blog, “blind faith, dogmatism, tribalism, homophobia, sexism, sexual abuse and harassment, transphobia ” in their movement. Darwinian atheist P. Z. Myers responded, lamenting

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  • Atheism and Antisemitism at America’s Universities

    Atheism and Antisemitism at America’s Universities0

    Ryan Burge is a data analyst who synthesizes information about religion and politics in the United States. He publishes his findings and observations regularly on Substack. Last week, he wrote an article titled “How Weird is The Religious Composition of Harvard’s Student Body?” In it, he examines the results of a poll Harvard conducted of

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  • Atheism Also Involves ‘Faith’

    Atheism Also Involves ‘Faith’0

    • October 26, 2015

    It’s popular to regard faith in God’s existence as “irrational,” and atheism as the height of rationality. But according to atheist Ijeoma Oluo, in a piece published in The Guardian this weekend, that’s just not true. Oluo writes, “I came to atheism the way that many Christians come to Christianity – through faith. I was

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