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Michael Shermer’s take on the question “Is New Atheism dead?”

The haters, shade-throwers, and draggers continue to publish articles saying that New Atheism is dead because the “self-appointed leaders” are all old white males who are alt-right-ish and bigoted, and because the movement itself, having failed to wed itself with social justice and embraced misogyny and conservatism instead, has driven away its adherents. As I … Continue reading Michael Shermer’s take on the question “Is New Atheism dead?”

Dawkins’s Darwin Day lecture for Humanists UK: “Taking Courage from Darwin to Fight the Hubris of Faith”

Reader Michael called my attention to Richard Dawkins’s Darwin Day Lecture to Humanists UK (HUK). Richard is introduced by Humanists UK President and evolutionary biologist Alice Roberts, who was the moderator when I gave this lecture a few years ago. Richard’s lecture was just posted today, and as I write there are only 194 views. … Continue reading Dawkins’s Darwin Day lecture for Humanists UK: “Taking Courage from Darwin to Fight the Hubris of Faith”

Reflections on the tenth anniversary of The God Delusion

Over at The Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta has been collecting quotes from atheists about the significance of Richard Dawkins’s book The God Delusion, which was published ten years ago today. Hemant says this about the book, “. . . you could argue that The God Delusion has created more atheists than any other book in history… … Continue reading Reflections on the tenth anniversary of The God Delusion

Brother Tayler’s Sunday Secular Sermon in Salon

Jeffrey Tayler continues his anti-theism in today’s Salon, and for him there’s no Geneva Convention in the war on faith. His piece, “They really want a theocracy: the GOP candidates who want to make you bow to their Lord,” is pretty much a reprise of his excellent talk at the Atheist Alliance of America a week … Continue reading Brother Tayler’s Sunday Secular Sermon in Salon

“There can’t be a practical reason for believing what isn’t true”: Bertrand Russell on his unbelief

In only 3.5 minutes, this great video disposes of many of the “utility” arguments for belief that constantly swarm about us like annoying flies. I may have posted this some time in the last six years, but I can’t be arsed to look it up, and at any rate I hear that Richard Dawkins tw**ted this … Continue reading “There can’t be a practical reason for believing what isn’t true”: Bertrand Russell on his unbelief

A militant atheist

This is the image that faitheists, accommodationists, and believers have when it comes to Our Own Satan. It was produced by Ben Goren, who calls it “Richard Dawkins, Militant Atheist,” who sent it with the note: The opening sentence of that execrable bit of nonsense by Nury Vittachi that you’ve got as the top post right … Continue reading A militant atheist

Bill O’Reilly and Chris Stedman ally against The War on Christmas

Chris Stedman is the assistant humanist chaplain at Harvard University, and author of the accommodationist book Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious (perhaps its title was stolen from this website!). Here’s a discussion he had with the odious Bill O’Reilly on December 6: According to Stedman, the #1 problem of atheists is that … Continue reading Bill O’Reilly and Chris Stedman ally against The War on Christmas

Finally, Dawkins converts people to Christianity

One of the staple criticisms of Richard Dawkins—the Official Lightning Rod of New Atheism™—is that his stridency turns people away from evolution as well as from atheism, so that he actually converts people into both creationists and, if they were originally nonbelievers, religionists. The former criticism is nonsense, of course. I’ve never in my life met someone … Continue reading Finally, Dawkins converts people to Christianity

Dan Dennett and Andrew Brown have a quick chat

Here’s our favorite avuncular atheist, Dan Dennett, engaging in a five-minute debate at the Guardian site with our most despiséd faitheist, Andrew Brown. The topic is  “Do the New Atheists have any new ideas?” It’s short and sweet, and Dennett admirably keeps his cool. (Notice, though, the piercing gaze that lasers out of Dan’s Santa-like visage … Continue reading Dan Dennett and Andrew Brown have a quick chat