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Atheism

An Atheist in Paradise

ASCENT INTO GLORY & DESCENT INTO DESPAIR

Alvaro Delgado

January-February 2022

As 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

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED #50

Carl Sundell

April 2021

GKC 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

MEET SOCIOLOGICAL MAN

Clifford Staples

December 2019

In 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

Christopher Beiting

May 2017

A review of The Triumph of Faith: Why the World Is More Religious than Ever

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Atheism Cloaked in Religion

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

March 2016

A 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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An Atheist's Guide to Gambling

THE HEART'S REASONS THAT REASON CANNOT KNOW

Carl Sundell

November 2015

As Pascal notes in his essay "The Art of Persuasion," people base their beliefs less on proof than on the basis of attraction.

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The Darwinists & the Albigenses

GUEST COLUMN

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

June 2015

Only a minority of believers who have entered into communion with the Albigenses and the Darwinists have ever managed to escape their labyrinths.

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Hell as the Atheist Heaven

GUEST COLUMN

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

January-February 2013

Note what happens to those who refuse to worship their Creator: their minds grow dark and senseless — that is to say, they talk nonsense and don't realize it.

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The New Atheism: All the Rage

GUEST COLUMN

Andrew M. Seddon

July-August 2012

It takes faith to believe that atheism provides the optimal milieu for humanity to thrive and progress, despite abundant evidence to the contrary.

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Atheism Yesterday & Today

THUMBNAIL SKETCHES OF FAMOUS ATHEISTS

Carl Sundell

April 2012

Since the time of Martin Luther, Christianity has endured a deepening crisis, and the Western world is experiencing a chronic surge toward atheism.

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Stephen Hawking: The Spiritually Blind International Killjoy
July-August 2011

When 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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Slaves of a Cold, Heartless Universe

THE RED HAND OF ATHEISM

Andrew M. Seddon

June 2011

Atheists don't have an absence of belief. They believe very strongly. They believe in naturalism — the assumption that nothing exists beyond the material cosmos.

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Has Science Made God Superfluous?

John P. Moench

April 2011

A pair of physicists published a book laced with mostly good science, but interpreted and channeled toward one obvious objective: the denial of God's existence.

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The Creation Story for Atheists

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

March 2011

Catholics must struggle to liberate science and culture from the grip of materialism, instead of looking for "quasi-Catholic ways" to support the materialist status quo.

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On the Plausibility of God

IS ATHEISM RATIONAL? IS RELIGION?

Carl Sundell

May 2010

In the end, atheism cannot overcome the God who has proven through twenty long centuries that He can be killed — but that He will not stay buried.

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Inverting Pascal's Wager

GUEST COLUMN

James F. Csank

May 2009

Buses in London and other cities throughout Great Britain carry the message: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."

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Kowtowing to God-Haters

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

May 2009

Michael 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

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

November 2008

Vox 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

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

December 2007

A 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 2004

Atheists are sick and tired of being referred to in pejorative or negative terms.

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Why Are People Atheists?

FREUDIAN IRONIES

Paul C. Vitz

January 2000

Atheism 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"

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

October 1989

Michael 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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