This is the eighth in a series of interviews about religion that I am conducting for The Stone. The interviewee for this installment is Michael Ruse, a professor of philosophy at Florida State University and the author of the forthcoming book “Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know.”

The Humanists of the Palouse are in the process of putting up five billboards in Moscow, Idaho and Pullman, Washington that emphasize good over God.

The Ministry of Awqaf (religious endowment), in partnership with the Ministry of Sports and Youth in Egypt, has begun a national campaign to fight the presumed spread of atheism among youth.

A secular organization settled its lawsuit against the IRS for not enforcing the law, but the fight will likely continue.

Many expressed surprise recently when, in one of its periodic surveys of Americans’ views of other faiths, the Pew Research Center found that atheists fare poorly—fully 40 percent of those polled described their views toward atheists as “cold.” Jews, Catholics, Evangelicals, Buddhists, Hindus, Mormons—all are viewed more...

The Christian right has some things figured out. These days, Christian entertainment isn’t just the didactic “700 Club” — it includes spectacles as high-flying as History’s miniseries “The Bible” or as wacky as GSN’s “American Bible Challenge.” If these entertainments, relying as they do on knowledge of the source material, do any converting, that’s a fringe benefit; they exist to further galvanize the faithful in their beliefs.

Not believing in science is like not being sexually attracted to the sun: It's not applicable, it doesn't care, and it still works to make your modern life possible, whether you like it or not.

Danthropology

This is an ongoing series featuring your stories of how you came to identify as an atheist. If you want to send me your story, you can submit it here. To read past stories, click here. You can follow me on the following to be updated when new stories are posted:     Our first story…

The decision has been condemned as ‘tragic and bizarre’ by the Church of England, which says Bibles in hotel rooms are important to provide hope, comfort and inspiration to travellers.

“Westernized Muslims repeat these statements [why chop off the hand of the thief? why is the person who commits fornication is stoned to death... and why flog a person who drinks wine] and this is one of the facets of apostasy... Abu Hanifa [founder of a school of Islamic jurisprudence] said...

I know what you're thinking, "I must have won the heathen lottery, because Godless Mom is giving us two posts today" but you needn't get all sweaty over it. Just simmer down. I'm giving you a second post because I love you guys and I found a sliver of extra time to give you a…

Okay I admit I have been mulling over this for several weeks.  Truth be told until David Cameron decided to tell us we were a Christian nation, the thought had never entered my head. I thought what...

Friendly Atheist

There's a rabbi, a priest and a Mormon blogger at HuffPost. I know that sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it's the truth. Often, the triumvirate of nonsense write blog posts that conflict with all rational thought, and today we're going to look at one such post. It's all about mistakes atheists make.…

Friendly Atheist

Sin is an imaginary disease meant to guilt trip you into thinking you need an imaginary cure. In Christianity you hear alot of talk about the term that is called original sin. In the bible the original man and women were called Adam and Eve. And everything was going good until the couple came across a talking snake who told to eat from the tree of the knowledge. But the god in the bible warned them not to eat from there. Since the two had no understanding of reason then how would they know not t

The continuing debate over a murky sexual encounter at a 2008 convention for cheekily anti-establishment skeptics underscores a broader dilemma: How can a progressive, important intellectual community behave so poorly towards its female peers?

You saved his life. Now save his future.