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An Atheist in Paradise

GUEST COLUMN

Alvaro Delgado

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!”

Chesterton on Man, the Religious Animal

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED #50

Carl Sundell

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.

The Ideology at the Root of Our Moral Disorder

MEET SOCIOLOGICAL MAN

Clifford Staples

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.

A New Age of Faith, Even for Atheists

Christopher Beiting

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

Atheism Cloaked in Religion

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

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

An Atheist's Guide to Gambling

THE HEART'S REASONS THAT REASON CANNOT KNOW

Carl Sundell

Hell as the Atheist Heaven

GUEST COLUMN

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

The New Atheism: All the Rage

GUEST COLUMN

Andrew M. Seddon

Atheism Yesterday & Today

THUMBNAIL SKETCHES OF FAMOUS ATHEISTS

Carl Sundell

Stephen Hawking: The Spiritually Blind International Killjoy

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.

Slaves of a Cold, Heartless Universe

THE RED HAND OF ATHEISM

Andrew M. Seddon

Has Science Made God Superfluous?

John P. Moench

A review of The Grand Design

The Creation Story for Atheists

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

A review of God and Evolution: Protestants, Catholics, and Jews Explore Dar­win's Challenge to Faith

On the Plausibility of God

IS ATHEISM RATIONAL? IS RELIGION?

Carl Sundell

Inverting Pascal's Wager

GUEST COLUMN

James F. Csank

Kowtowing to God-Haters

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Michael Novak's admiration for atheists is based on the faulty premise that believers and nonbelievers are equally in "darkness" with respect to God.

Exploding the False Claims of the New Atheists

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Vox Day uses logic and facts (not theology) to refute the "unholy trinity" of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens.

The Apologia of an Atheist Mammal

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

A review of atheist Christopher Hitchens's god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Anne Barbeau Gardiner.

Here Come the "Brights"

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

Why Are People Atheists?

FREUDIAN IRONIES

Paul C. Vitz

Atheism is a recent and distinctively Western phenomenon; no other culture has manifested such a widespread public rejection of the divine.

The Death of a "Catholic Atheist"

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

Michael Harrington was an eloquent, attractive leader and lucid thinker. Even those who disagreed with him found it almost impossible not to love him.