Do you tweet? “I think it really is without any redeeming qualities.”… Read the rest

National Agency for Education wants all major world religions to be treated equally; the government is steamrolling the agency, education minister told Svenska Dagbladet.… Read the rest

One theocrat calls on another for cooperation by “divine religions” against secularism.… Read the rest

“One issue that deeply worried me in prison was the false image I unwittingly projected to the outside world; of being regarded as a saint.”… Read the rest

Currently seculars are supporting democratic forces, while the religious forces are bent upon undermining the democratic disposition of the state.… Read the rest

And magic realism, gaming, Islamism, the fading of the fatwa, Bombay, and the movies, with Andrew Marr.… Read the rest

He says it in USA Today! The walls are crumbling…… Read the rest

About 300 nonbelievers from across the US and Canada gathered for three days of lively and, at times, gleefully blasphemous debate.… Read the rest

“We were young and trying to advance our careers, so we just started making things up: Homer, Aristotle, Socrates, Hippocrates, all the different kinds of columns…”… Read the rest

Religion provides solace to millions, we are told, it makes them happy, and it’s mostly harmless. “But is it true?”, we ask, as if it matters.… Read the rest

We encounter the self-righteous, injured innocence of those easily offended, who want to silence anyone who criticizes anything they hold dear.… Read the rest

Religious maniacs are trying to prevent the use of existing embryos for stem cell research that would help existing humans.… Read the rest

Mooney was better than one might expect; PZ was great.… Read the rest

And while we’re at it, let’s accuse “the New Atheists” of braying. That will set the tone nicely.… Read the rest

A pink closet, meant to promote gay rights at UCT, was torched on Monday night, just hours after it was set up… Read the rest

Just what you’d expect from someone who wants to stamp out beauty and replace people with robots.… Read the rest

Mina Ahadi and Maryam Namazie met with Roberta Angelilli to discuss the urgent case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and hand deliver a letter from her son.… Read the rest

Data on religion produced by the 2001 census gave a wholly misleading picture of the religiosity of the UK, halving the number of non-religious people.… Read the rest

And why David Koch funded it: because it gives the impression that human-caused climate change is no big deal, we’ll just “adapt.”… Read the rest

The orientation model and the belief model, and whether the first makes the second worth keeping.… Read the rest