
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told an audience Saturday that while the United States was intentionally founded without an established church, it was never intended to be “neutral” toward religion itself.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.4 Jan 2016, 10:07 AM PST0

In his New Year’s address Friday, Pope Francis said that despite many negative signs that make us think God is absent in the world, His mercy is the only thing capable of overcoming the misery that threatens our world.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.2 Jan 2016, 12:27 PM PST0

According to a Gallup poll, one in five American adults has no formal religious identification, a five percentage-point jump since 2008.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.26 Dec 2015, 11:24 AM PST0

Atheists should not feel left out of Christmas celebrations, according to a prominent Catholic priest, who suggests ten reasons the quintessentially Christian feast should matter to everyone–believer and non-believer alike.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.24 Dec 2015, 2:04 PM PST0

Secularism has succeeded in subverting the concept of separation of church and state until it no longer bears any resemblance to its original intent (preventing the establishment of a state religion). Instead, it is now used to stamp out any public expression of faith.
by Deborah Owens22 Dec 2015, 5:50 PM PST0

Brad Pitt is an atheist — because his father instilled a “Christian guilt” in him during his upbringing.
by Daniel Nussbaum29 Nov 2015, 5:07 PM PST0

British Masterpiece series Downton Abbey is now “history,” but the popular show’s historical adviser says its executives banned any mention of Christianity in the drama—which would have been a central element in the lives of British aristocracy.
by Dr. Susan Berry19 Nov 2015, 6:08 PM PST0

The complaint of a single citizen caused a city council in Iowa to remove a memorial to soldiers that consists of a silhouette of a kneeling soldier and a cross, reports say.
by Warner Todd Huston3 Nov 2015, 6:14 PM PST0

Evolutionary biologist and celebrated God-slayer Richard Dawkins is expressing his bewilderment at how America can simultaneously be the world leader in the natural sciences while also a strikingly religious nation.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.30 Oct 2015, 9:50 AM PST0

“Does God exist?” is, perhaps, humanity’s oldest philosophical question.
by Scott Pinsker30 Oct 2015, 7:24 AM PST0

Speaking on the Rubin Report with Dave Rubin, Breitbart senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos slammed Atheists as thin-skinned, poorly-dressed, and wrong. He also criticised the gay community for its treatment of Christians in the United States.
by Breitbart News8 Oct 2015, 7:19 PM PST0

In the ongoing controversy over a monument dedicated to the Ten Commandments, currently standing next to the state Capitol in Oklahoma, a judge has now given the state 30 days to remove the edifice from the Capitol grounds.
by Warner Todd Huston11 Sep 2015, 10:03 PM PST0

A new poll has shown that atheism is on the rise in Scotland, as nearly half of Scots now say they are of no religion, up from 40 per cent in 2009. On current trends, Christianity will become a minority
by Donna Rachel Edmunds28 Aug 2015, 5:02 AM PST0

A Wisconsin atheist group called the Freedom from Religion Foundation has sued the government to have a World War II memorial affectionately known as “Big Mountain Jesus” removed from a Montana ski slope, insisting that the monument signifies an unconstitutional endorsement of religion by the Forest Service.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.8 Jul 2015, 12:15 PM PST0

Real Time host Bill Maher took aim at “conservatives who constantly whine” that Christianity is under attack in America during a segment on his HBO show Friday night.
by Daniel Nussbaum7 Jun 2015, 12:19 PM PST0

Islam is the fastest growing religion in the United Kingdom, and the Church of England is in steep decline, according to the latest information released by the British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey. The newest BSA report shows that while 40
by Breitbart London7 Jun 2015, 3:18 AM PST0

The quintessential symbol of Christianity—the cross—has been outlawed on the rooftops of buildings in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, pending final approval.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.8 May 2015, 7:11 PM PST0

Blogger Washiqur Rahman, 27, was hacked to death in Bangladesh, the second similar attack on independent writers in the nation. An American atheist blogger was also hacked to death in Dhaka, the capital of the country.
by Mary Chastain30 Mar 2015, 10:08 AM PST0

Lord Carey, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, has called on Christians to regain confidence in their faith and to speak about it. “It is simply a matter of freedom of speech,” he has said. His comments were prompted by a recent report
by Donna Rachel Edmunds15 Mar 2015, 8:34 AM PST0

The globally recognized phenomenon of American religiosity has been a bugbear of the political and cultural left since the country’s founding. Many seem convinced that the United States is a great country despite its overwhelming religiosity and deep-seated Judeo-Christian roots, unwilling to entertain the possibility that America’s greatness may indeed be due, in no small part, to that spirit.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.4 Mar 2015, 5:39 AM PST0

David Silverman, head of the American Atheists group at CPAC, told Breitbart News that “Obama was raised by an atheist and a skeptic, so he at least knows the arguments.”
by Austin Ruse28 Feb 2015, 11:05 AM PST0

Citizens organized a march in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to protest the murder of American atheist blogger Avijit Roy. He was hacked to death with machetes after he received numerous threats from radical Islamists.
by Mary Chastain27 Feb 2015, 11:39 AM PST0

The American Family Association (AFA) has published and distributed a hate-map of organizations that demonstrate animus toward Christianity.
by Austin Ruse24 Feb 2015, 12:52 PM PST0

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry is demanding “the involvement of Palestinian investigators to clarify the circumstances of” the murder of three Muslim Americans in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The Ministry denounced Chapel Hill shooter Craig Stephen Hicks as “an American extremist and hateful racist.”
by John Hayward17 Feb 2015, 7:23 AM PST0

Saudi Arabia said on Sunday that the killing of three North Carolina Muslims by atheist Craig Hicks was a “heinous terrorist” act and called on leaders to end aggressions against Muslims.
by Wynton Hall15 Feb 2015, 12:47 PM PST0