Church attendance has been steadily falling in the U.S. and other developed countries for decades, causing a rise in people who tell pollsters that they are unaffiliated with any organized faith.

Atheism is far from new, but the various ways that people say “no thank you” to belief in gods, deities, or particular religions are so diverse that they’ve had a huge impact on world belief systems.

Is the renewed influence of religion in public life a threat to reason and science? That's the conviction of some nonbelievers aggressively advocating Atheism. We hear the latest version of an ancient ...

Browsing through the ASU events calendar, I was excited to see that Richard Dawkins, the famed evolutionary biologist best known for his harsh criticism of religion, would be speaking at Gammage on ...

The fight between New Atheism and religious extremism is futile, for both are rigid in their outlooks and blind to social injustices. Political atheism is a radical alternative rooted in a broader ...

Some people find it incredible their otherwise intelligent friends believe in a God, a Virgin Birth or the Resurrection of Christ. Others find it incredible that their otherwise intelligent friends ...

The heyday of the new atheism in Western life, when anti-God tracts by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens bestrode best-seller lists, did not arrive because brilliant new arguments for God’s ...

Depending on who you ask, America's young people are experiencing a religious revival. Gen Zers are now more likely to attend church weekly than millennials, with young men in particular leading the ...

CHICAGO (Reuters Life!) - For some atheists in the United States it's a bright new day with the election of President Barack Obama and a move away from religion-shaped government policies of past ...

Catholic writer Ross Douthat thinks so. And others do too. Authors Ross Douthat (C) and Spencer Klaven (R) talk during a dicussion moderated by Chad C. Pecknold (L) professor of historical & ...

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has publicly declared his Christian faith, saying the time is right to "fully and publicly" share his beliefs. Sanger, 56, described on Wikipedia as an "American ...

Easter season is not just a time of penance and, ultimately, joy for Christians, it is also a time for reflection. One appropriate subject for reflection at this time is the remarkably vigorous ...