A judge has tossed out a lawsuit that sought to stop the display of a cross-shaped steel beam found among the World Trade Center’s rubble, saying the artifact could help tell the story of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. US District Judge Deborah Batts rejected the arguments of American Atheists, which had sued the National September Read more
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Unbelievers number next to Christians and Muslims 
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Friday, December 21st, 2012
More than 80 per cent of the world’s people identify with a religious group — but unbelievers, including atheists and agnostics, are now the third largest grouping. These results come from a new demographic study carried out by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. Christians, with 2.2 billion or 32 per Read more
Why Richard Dawkins’ humanists remind me of a religion Comments 0
Friday, October 5th, 2012
Humanism in its most virulent form tries to make science into a religion. It is awash with the intolerance of enthusiasm. For a start, there is the near-hysterical repudiation of religion. To quote Richard Dawkins: “I think there’s something very evil about faith … it justifies essentially anything. If you’re taught in your holy book Read more
Atheists’ pain caused by 9/11 cross at public museum Comments 0
Friday, September 14th, 2012
A legal battle is looming in New York over the using of a large cross as part of a 9/11 memorial. The cross made of one of the twin tower’s T-beams became a national symbol in the days after the 2001 attacks, however a national group, American Atheists is suing one of the 9/11 memorial Read more
Does religious belief increase compassion? Comments 0
Friday, May 4th, 2012
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are suggesting that the results from a series of three experiments they conducted show that the link between compassion and generosity is stronger in those who are non religious or less religious than it is in highly religious people The study defined compassion as “an emotion felt when people see the suffering of Read more
Unbelievers seek religion too Comments 0
Friday, April 13th, 2012
Know your enemy, ran the headline in a recent editorial of New Scientist: “To rule out God, first get to know him.” God, New Scientist seems surprised to find, is still everywhere. Try as we might to reduce the Almighty to the small “god” promoted by secularists, we can’t seem to rid ourselves of Him. Read more
Believers deem Atheists as untrustworthy as rapists: Study Comments 0
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Religious believers distrust atheists more than members of other religious groups, gays and feminists, according to a new study by University of B.C. researchers.
The only group the study’s participants distrusted as much as atheists was rapists, said doctoral student Will Gervais, lead author of the study published online in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
That prejudice had a significant impact on what kinds of jobs people said they would hire atheists to do.
“People are willing to hire an atheist for a job that is perceived as low-trust, for instance as a waitress,” said Gervais. “But when hiring for a high-trust job like daycare worker, they were like, nope, not going to hire an atheist for that job.”
The antipathy does not seem to run both ways, though. Atheists are indifferent to religious belief when it comes to deciding who is trustworthy.
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Peace gathering to be held at Assisi includes atheists Comments 0
Friday, October 21st, 2011
The Oct. 27 gathering of religious leaders in Assisi to discuss global peace will include four leading atheists, but will not include any common prayer. “It is an exercise of dialogue, and dialogue always respects the specific identity of the people, of individuals,” said Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Read more
