Atheism has a long history going back to the Greeks. Classical Stoicism allowed that there are gods but contended that a wise person need pay them no heed. Leaders of the French Enlightenment ...

Say the words "British," "scientist" and "atheist" and the first person to come to mind probably isn't Stephen Hawking. But while Hawking, the theoretical physicist who died Wednesday at age 76, was ...

In general, Americans do not like atheists. In studies, they say they feel coldly toward nonbelievers; it’s estimated that more than half of the population say they’d be less likely to vote for a ...

Religion historian Leigh Eric Schmidt is the author of half a dozen books on religion, but it is the non-religious who have captured his attention in his latest book, Village Atheists: How America's ...

Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief – known in the United States as A Brief History of Disbelief – is a 2004 television documentary series written and presented by Jonathan Miller for the BBC and ...

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 ...

Recently opened in Ashkhabad, the capital of Turkmenistan, near the U.S.S.R.-Iranian border, is a University of Atheism now offering a six-month course to further the spread of scientific-atheistic ...

In a blog entry at BET, Cord Jefferson says that members of a rising African-American atheist movement want to remind people that not all prominent black leaders and artists hailed from the church. He ...

What is the atheist moral code? We all know what the Christian and Jewish moral codes ask of its adherents. We also know that all of the evil committed by Jews and Christians was the result of ...

gatherings of nonbelievers. The reason: he's black. "I got really tired of going back and forth to free thought events and being the only black person there," said Jules, 36, who lives in Dallas. "It ...