Christopher Beha’s path to atheism began in college. Close encounters with death—a brother’s car accident, his own cancer diagnosis—led to a period of disenchantment. He picked up Bertrand Russell’s ...

Among the philosophical and literary influences Jason Blakely mentions in his conversion story are (clockwise from top left) Charles Taylor, Friedrich Nietzsche and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The crucifix at ...

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 ...

Many atheists consider themselves to be highly rational people who rate evidence and analytical thinking above religion, superstition and intuition. They might even argue that atheism is the most ...