Reflections on the Revolution in France

Bill Muehlenberg | 16 July 2009 | comment 23

Two centuries ago, France's experiment with expelling God and worshipping Reason ended in a sea of blood.

The continuing push for a naked public square.

Daniel Proussalidis | 10 April 2009 | comment 52

The push to get religion out of public life is relentless. The resistance to such a foolish move must be relentless as well.

One Flew out of the atheists’ nest

William West | 01 April 2009 | comment 56

How DNA investigations led a philosopher to affirm a ‘creative intelligence’ at the origin of life.

‘Darwin? That’s just the party line’

Wayne Eyre | 02 November 2008 | comment 35

Many scientists don't believe that science is the only religion in town.

Atheism becomes fashionable

Richard Bastien | 16 October 2007 | comment 62

Passionate tracts by the new missionaries of unbelief are selling like hotcakes. But are they rational?

How literature reveals intelligent design

William Park | 12 October 2007 | comment 11

A literary critic discerns pointers towards the transcendent in great works of imagination.

How the West might find God again

Mary Eberstadt | 08 October 2007 | comment 35

It is assumed that the West turned against religion and then lost interest in marriage and children - but there is evidence that the reverse could also be true.

The ultimate miserabilist

Michael Cook | 03 October 2007 | comment 30

Just when you thought philosophers couldn't get any more pessimistic, one of them surprises you. 

Challenging the prejudice of materialism

Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary | 29 September 2007 | comment 4

A journalist and a neuroscientist maintain that morality and spirituality are more than electrical impulses in the brain.

Fear religion: CNN’s message to the nation

Sheila Gribben Liaugminas | 27 September 2007 | comment 42

Christiane Amanpour had a clear message in her three-part series on CNN: worshipping God creates scary people.

Mother Teresa’s agony

Richard Umbers | 02 September 2007 | comment 19

Despite her smile and cheerful confidence Mother Teresa felt inner desolation for years. What does this mean?

Do science and rationality support atheism?

Edward Remler | 19 August 2007 | comment 78

No, says a nuclear physicist. To understand why, you must be prepared to face the Fundamental Question of Philosophy: Why is there anything rather than nothing?

Why are they throwing brickbats at God?

Margaret Somerville | 02 June 2007 | comment 85

A campaign by eminent atheist Richard Dawkins to discredit religion makes little sense, says a Canadian ethicist.

Christian ideas gone mad

Philip Trower | 19 March 2007 | comment 2

It's time to take a closer look at the Enlightenment values which underpin much of modern thinking, says a British journalist in this interview.

Religion flourishes but atheism looks sick

Carolyn Moynihan | 23 January 2006

Why does atheism get such a good press and religion such a bad one when, as a global survey shows, religious people outnumber atheists eleven to one?

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