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As a defender of atheism, Richard Dawkins has publicly declared that religion is the "root of all evil," which became the title of his first big television hit in the UK, broadcast in 2006.

Christians and atheists are ramping up their messages in the battle for hearts and minds in the City of Churches Street preachers in Adelaide's Rundle Mall have been silenced by the high court upholding a council by-law.

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Until recently, the number of organized atheists has been pretty small and so religious believers have more experience proselytizing to people of other religious or even those who are barely religious but still consider themselves believers.

I love the remark made by one Oxford don about another: 'On the surface, he's profound, but deep down, he's superficial.'

This article in the Spectator starts with a straw man - the atheist who acknowledges no middle ground between Biblical literalism and non-belief: Future intellectual historians will look back with wonder at the strange phenomenon of seemingly intelligent secularists in the 21st century believing that if they could show that the first chapters of ... (more)

Ask a Muslim if he believes in God and he will say yes as well. Ask a Hindu if he believes in God and you still get a yes.

The New Atheists love proclaiming that religion is dying. It's a claim that is hard to argue with.

There is a superb piece in the magazine this week by the Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, titled 'Atheism has failed: only religion can defeat the barbarians.'

When I first saw the headline I admit being genuinely curious what sort of monument an atheist group would erect.

America has an atheist problem, but it's not the kind of problem you might imagine.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in an 1802 letter, "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State."

Pundits have long speculated that if local governments insist on mixing Christianity and politics - Bible classes in public schools, the Ten Commandments posted at courthouses, etc.

I'm going to be hosting a Q&A on Wednesday with Curtis White, essayist, novelist, and professional curmudgeon.

Dr. Sascha Vongehr [e Zae 'ae2TM] studied phil/math/chem/phys in Germany, obtained a BSc in theoretical physics & MSc ... Vincent J. Torley in " Bad science by Dr. Victor Stenger, arguing in the cause of atheism " argues well about quite difficult and controversial physics.

Freethought Arizona is a blog for freethinkers in general and Arizona atheists, agnostics, skeptics, and secular humanists in particular.

When Richard Dawkins was named the world's "Top Thinker" in a poll recently published by Prospect magazine , it was hard to avoid the suspicion that the world - or at least that part of it that votes in such polls - must have an impoverished sense of what constitutes a vital or transformative intellectual figure.

Are there any objective moral values if atheism is true? Atheist philosophers Michael Ruse and Edward Wilson's don't think so.

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