In sharp contrast to today’s unbelievers, Friedrich Nietzsche understood that the “death of God” meant the death of morality.
The fate of Christians and Jews under Communism should serve as a lesson to contemporary atheists for whom persecution is only another word for religion.
Some justify atheism on the grounds that we no longer need God to explain natural phenomena. “This is pretty lame.” (Interview by Gary Gutting.)
There is more than meets the eye to Leo Strauss’s claim that philosophers, himself included, cannot be religious believers.
Scientists and philosophers of mind are tossing the human-centered worldview into the trash; it is incumbent on Judaism and Christianity to confront them.
The use of religious terminology, rituals, and theological concepts by nominally atheist groups suggests that they are not quite as distant from traditional theism as they claim.
Serious theists and atheists, though they frequently debate the reality of God, hardly ever use the word “God” in the same way.
Pew’s survey of American Jews raises more questions about the state of American Jewry than it answers.
The autobiography of the militant atheist Richard Dawkins betrays a positively religious zeal for Charles Darwin, atheism, and, above all, himself.
Attempting to defend the Enlightenment and Western civilization from postmodern attacks, a new history degenerates instead into a tiresome diatribe against religion.
The British Left is fine with attacks on Christianity, but hates Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist and militant atheist, for attacking Islam too.
Serious fiction today is almost entirely devoid of religiously informed understanding; can readers and writers reverse the tide?
Well-known physicists claiming that quantum mechanics explains how the universe could have arisen ex nihilo have a lot to learn about nothing.
“The atheist claims to know that there is no God; the agnostic admits that he is uncertain. Put differently, an atheist is someone directly told. . .