For its Special Report series, CNN aired a one-hour program on Tuesday titled, Atheists: Inside the World of Non-Believers. With a name like that, the show was destined to feel like a National Geographic documentary about a rare and oft misunderstood species of bird, and it did. ...read more
On Tuesday morning, police say 46-year-old Craig Stephen Hicks shot and killed three University of North Carolina students at their condo complex in Chapel Hill. A police spokesman said the "preliminary investigation indicates that the crime was motivated by an ongoing neighbor ...read more
The level of dishonesty to which some critics of Bill Maher, Sam Harris, and other atheists critical of Islam have stooped wouldn’t be so discouraging were it not for the eagerness with which the deceit is received and proliferated. There is no shortage of examples, especially ...read more
Quite possibly, the last minority group in the United States that it's socially acceptable to bash openly with abandon is the secular crowd. This would include atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, and other Americans who either don't believe in a god, or those who do, but think ...read more
Biologist Richard Dawkins sent twitter into a tizzy on Wednesday in response to a woman’s hypothetical dilemma about whether to abort a fetus with Down syndrome. In typical Dawkins fashion, he gave a straightforward reply: Let's state the obvious for a moment: twitter is not ...read more