A federal court in Canada has ruled that the self-titled "Church of Atheism" isn't a religion and can't be treated like one for tax purposes. The Court of Appeal upheld the refusal by the minister of ...

In his final New Rule of the night, Bill Maher disputed the idea thrown out by some that atheism is a religion. It’s a refrain you hear from people who can’t stand both groups and believe that dogma ...

For a theist there’s nothing quite like watching an atheist get an intellectual walloping from a preacher. There’s just something apocalyptic about it, and it most easily occurs when the atheist tries ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter J Reilly is a Forbes contributor who covers taxes. The litigation between the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the ...

I'll come to the detail in a moment but first let me paint in some backdrop. Atheism has never had much wide-spread appeal or traction, but there is a kind of mythology shared by many religious and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Devin Kelley, who on Sunday killed 26 people in a mass shooting at a small church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, may be an atheist. For some of the most influential media outlets on the right, his ...

David Silverman, the president of American Atheists and author of the new atheist polemic Fighting God, really doesn’t want you to think he’s a dick. Instead, he wants you to think he’s “That Pretty ...

No doubt faith is in crisis. But this applies, as is painfully shown in the CNN documentary on American atheism that broadcast last week, to the personal agony of families. Standing back a bit, faith ...

Morocco ranks 9th among African countries with the highest share of non-religious citizens, The African Exponent reported on Monday. The report reveals that 35.8% of Moroccans identify as ...