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An Atheist in Paradise
January-February 2022As we reached the top of the mountain, she flailed her ski poles in the air and yelled angrily, “There is no God! There is no Heaven! There is no Hell!”
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Chesterton on Man, the Religious Animal
April 2021GKC asserts that Jesus was not merely one of many great figures in history; rather, He is at the center of all history: past, present, and future.
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The Ideology at the Root of Our Moral Disorder
December 2019In the sociological imagination, it is man who creates God. Once he frees himself from God, anything is possible, or at least appears to be.
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A New Age of Faith, Even for Atheists
May 2017A review of The Triumph of Faith: Why the World Is More Religious than Ever
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Atheism Cloaked in Religion
March 2016A review of Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness, The Bible: A Biography, The Case for God, and Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
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Stephen Hawking: The Spiritually Blind International Killjoy
July-August 2011When a celebrity physicist calls Heaven a "fairy story for people afraid of the dark," perhaps it reveals more about him than about Heaven or other people.
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The Creation Story for Atheists
March 2011A review of God and Evolution: Protestants, Catholics, and Jews Explore Darwin's Challenge to Faith
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Kowtowing to God-Haters
May 2009Michael Novak's admiration for atheists is based on the faulty premise that believers and nonbelievers are equally in "darkness" with respect to God.
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Exploding the False Claims of the New Atheists
November 2008Vox Day uses logic and facts (not theology) to refute the "unholy trinity" of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens.
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The Apologia of an Atheist Mammal
December 2007A review of atheist Christopher Hitchens's god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Anne Barbeau Gardiner.
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Here Come the "Brights"
April 2004Atheists are sick and tired of being referred to in pejorative or negative terms.
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Why Are People Atheists?
January 2000Atheism is a recent and distinctively Western phenomenon; no other culture has manifested such a widespread public rejection of the divine.
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The Death of a "Catholic Atheist"
October 1989Michael Harrington was an eloquent, attractive leader and lucid thinker. Even those who disagreed with him found it almost impossible not to love him.
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