Life without Meaning
Life either has a purpose or it doesn’t. If it does have a purpose, that purpose is not universally known or agreed upon. This can only mean that the purpose …
Understanding what Constitutes Atheism
Atheism is the lack of belief in any god or gods. Put more clearly, atheism is a philosophical position negating the validity of belief in the existence of any form …
Why Atheism is not a Choice
Just about every person on this earth defines himself and his beliefs on what he sees and experiences each day. People can often choose what they experience-but what one takes …
Life without Purpose and the Search for Meaning
While spending eight weeks at a psychiatric rehabilitation center last year, I made what I thought to be a fairly innocuous comment. I simply stated that things just happen. In …
Understanding the Psychology of Atheism
This may come as a surprise to most people, but the psychological factors behind a belief in atheism are in fact exactly the same as those involved in belief in …
Questioning whether the Concept of God can be Disproved
Well, just think about that question for one second. ‘Can God be disproved?’ …It starts with an affirmation in the positive, as if God already exists to be disproved. Read …
The Difference Between Atheism and Agnosticism
Being an atheist or agnostic depends primarily on how open minded the person is and the strength of their conviction. The technical definition of atheism is the belief that God …
What is the New Atheism Movement
It is common misconception that the “New Atheist Movement” is the same as Militant Atheism. The so called leaders of this movement have made their reasons clear as to why …
A Black Agnostic Criticizes the Black Church in America
This is not a criticism of the black church but a question that I address that I wonder if others ponder too. What’s in History I have read a lot …
Madalyn Murray O’Hair – The reason behind the hate
Arguably the most notorious atheist of the 20th century, Madalyn Murray O’Hair built a life on boldly challenging any overlapping in church and state. She not only challenged any perceived …
Great Books that Criticize Religion
Why I Am Not a Christian is a book of essays which includes a copy of a speech by Bertrand Russell, the Welsh-born philosopher and mathematician, who delivered it to …
Has Religion become Obsolete
In today’s relentlessly progressing society, there lies a general consensus that science is slowly but enviably stripping away the functions of religion one by one. Previously unexplainable phenomenons thought to …
Understanding why Theists need to Deny Atheism
Just as many atheists feel the need to deny the probability of a divine creator, even more theists are compelled to spread the word of God and thereby denounce atheism. …
Questioning whether the Concept of God – Acceptance on God’s existence
Can God be disproved? Can God be proved? Can we fully understand God (or the lack thereof) sufficiently to answer those questions? One might just as well ask an ant …
Exploring the Question of Freedom Offered by Atheism
Atheism offers freedom in the relationship to the God theories of the world today. Atheism being the denial of the existence of God and presuming the theory is that no …
Humanists Heaven on Earth
HEAVEN ON EARTH: IS IT POSSIBLE? Heaven can be defined several ways. Out of the six entries offered by the “American Heritage Dictionary,” there are only two that the humanist …
10 Sources of Inspiration for Atheists
Atheists are no different than anyone else with the sole exception that they don’t believe in God or any form of higher being. With that in mind they have to …
Dangerous Myths Reward after Death what a Reward
WHAT A REWARD! Where to begin if you are still alive? Yet, there’s no escaping the question of death. But dangerous myths: reward after death? That’s quite another story. All …
Why Atheism and Morality are not Incompatible
It’s said that religion is the opiate of the masses. People tend to lump morality in with spirituality. Religious people will say that you can’t be moral if your not …
Is Atheism Compatible With Morality?
This question’s answer must begin with a categorical study of the two concepts. To briefly examine them for the sake of time, atheism is a belief that denies the existence …
Why Prayer Does Not Work – An Atheist View
Even to suggest that atheists have views on certain matters without reason tends to be rather silly. By definition, an atheist does not accept theology and thereby does not accept God …
Dalai Lama
The narrator in my head keeps saying that I met the Dalai Lama today. I suppose I did. He just didn’t meet me, or at least, not any more than …
Reasons not to believe in God
Recently, I have become absolutely enthralled with the comedic and political antics of Bill Maher. How I completely missed just how in tune this guy is with the American people’s …
What Can You Say About Nietzsche’s “God is Dead” phrase?
God is dead? Well this was the phrase Nietzsche used, however it is has been grossly misinterpreted. Although we do infact know for sure that he orated this phrase, the …
Morals don’t require religion
Agnosticism is not an indecisive religion, but rather, it is a lifestyle, much like Judaism or Buddhism (the list goes on). Some agnostics believe there is a God; a better …
How Technology Promotes Atheism and Agnosticism
First of all, I think we should clarify the term “geek.” The true definition of a geek is a man in a circus who bites off the heads of live …
Agnosticism why neither Religion nor Atheism is right
Everything in our lives is weighed against our assumptions. Everything is judged, from our experiences to our very emotions. The entirety of our sentient existence is shaped by that set …
How new atheism has changed the game?
After decades of routinely despising atheists for their personal choice to live their lives free of religion, the religious community is now turning atheism’s respect for rational thinking into a …
Questioning whether the Concept of God can be Disproved
“I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers.”-Thomas Nagel Three sources, …
Philosophy of Religion – Why Atheists Should Care about This?
THEOLOGY IN MODERN AGE Summary: We truly live in a remarkable age where the acceleration of its change hasbeen the fastest since the Roman invasion. Dubbed, appropriately, theinformation age, most …
Why Atheists are right
I view the title, “Why Atheists are Right”, as relating to behavior. I am an atheist, but I can’t say that all atheists are right, or that religious believers are …
Atheism vs Agnosticism
The question regarding the difference between these two non-religious worldviews is a complex question and in practice the two terms don’t even need to be mutually exclusive. The term atheism …