Not all atheists are created equal. Some raise sincere questions; others simply attack. Learn how to respond to both effectively. Sébastien Norblin, “St. Paul in Athens,” 1844 (photo: Public Domain) ...

Can we not expect theories about God's nature to have scientifically tractable consequences, as the protagonists of the Scientific Revolution believed, the main fruit of which was Newton's system? It ...

Editor's Note: This article is part of the Register’s symposium on Vatican II at 60. In the view of Joseph Ratzinger, Gaudium et Spes’ three paragraphs on atheism “may be counted among the most ...

As one who writes and teaches a lot about secularism and humanism, lectures a lot about atheism and agnosticism, and directs a secular studies program, there are a few common questions/comments that ...

O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God. American faith ...

I didn't know what fire and brimstone was until I made a throwaway claim recently during an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher. It seemed pretty unaudacious at the time, but by dropping the ...

To start these conversations, I usually ask the guest to define their spiritual identity. And when I asked this of author Vanessa Zoltan, she replied that she's a Jewish atheist. That is interesting ...

Louis J. Appignani, an 84-year-old living in Florida, tells a compelling story about his conversion to atheism. Despite attending Catholic schools from a young age and through his teens, he didn’t ...

Penn Jillette, Hayekian magician extraordinaire, attributes his atheism and his libertarianism to the credo, “I don’t know” which sums up his take on government and god: What makes me libertarian is ...

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 ...

On a crystalline spring morning on the third Sunday of Lent, Lucy and I went to church with my parents, who had flown in from Arizona for a weekend visit. We sat together in a long wooden pew, and my ...