Atheist ads to adorn New York subway stations NEW YORK (CNN) — Some New Yorkers may want to reconsider exclaiming “Thank God” when arriving at their destination subway station beginning next Monday. Or at least that’s what a coalition of eight atheist organizations are hoping, having purchased a month-long campaign that will place their posters [...]

Devoted Atheists Grow in Numbers, Goals Valerie Celeste Coffey is a woman on a mission. For six years, her small group of local atheists has gathered to exchange bemused stories about the things Christians do in worship and swap tips for raising confident skeptics. But on a recent Wednesday evening here at the Java Room [...]

Religion: why do people believe in God? As scientists prove that faith can relieve pain, distinguished psychologist Dorothy Rowe examines the case for and against religion I’m not religious, but I have thought about religion all of my life. My mother never attended church but she insisted that I went to St Andrew’s Church, a [...]

Dems dismiss the atheists A few atheists have their panties in a twist once again, this time fussing that an atheist leader wasn’t invited to speak at an Aug. 24 interfaith service that’s part of the Democratic National Convention. The service will feature Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist speakers. The official reason for the interfaith [...]

The rise of Miliband brings at last the prospect of an atheist prime minister When Labour cabinet members were asked about their religious allegiances last December, following Tony Blair’s official conversion to Roman Catholicism, it turned out that more than half of them are not believers. The least equivocal about their atheism were the health [...]

Why I Am Not A Christian As your Chairman has told you, the subject about which I am going to speak to you tonight is “Why I Am Not a Christian.” Perhaps it would be as well, first of all, to try to make out what one means by the word Christian. It is used [...]