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Study Examines Why Americans Switch Religious Affiliations - washingtonpost.com
At the same time, the large and growing number of people who report having no religious affiliation are surprisingly open to religion, researchers said. Unlike the popular perception that many have embraced secularism, a significant percentage appeared simply to have put their religiosity on pause -- having worshiped as part of at least one faith already, about three in 10 said they have just not yet found the right religion.
"We tend to think that when people leave [religion] they leave," said Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University. "But a lot of these unaffiliated are unaffiliated for now. . . . It's not a one-way street. It's not like after you've left a religious affiliation, you can't get back in."
Meacham: The End of Christian America | Newsweek Religion | Newsweek.com
The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. How that statistic explains who we are now—and what, as a nation, we are about to become.
YouTube - Irreligion & Scandinavian Society- Phil Zuckerman Part1 of 2
"Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment"
Freethought radio interview with Phil Zuckerman on his new book that looks into the secular scandinavian countries.
'Recommended Reading: Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment' by Phil Zuckerman - RichardDawkins.net
Contrary to the views of many conservative pundits and the Christian Right, the least religious countries in the world today are not full of chaos and immorality, but are actually among the safest, healthiest, most well-educated, prosperous, ethical, and successful societies on earth. Based on a year's worth of research conducted while living in Scandinavia, SOCIETY WITHOUT GOD by Phil Zuckerman explores life in a largely secular culture, delving into the unique worldviews of secular men and women who live in a largely irreligious society, and explaining the reasons why some nations are less religious than others, and why religious faith doesn't seem to be the secret to national success that so many claim it to be.
'Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks' by Sam Harris - RichardDawkins.net
It is astounding how infrequently one hears such candor among the public voices of "moderate" Islam. This is what we owe the true moderates of the Muslim world: we must hold their co-religionists to the same standards of civility and reasonableness that w
In God's name - National - smh.com.au
Church and state need to get out of each other's pockets, and give secularism a fair go, argues Keith Austin.
In God's name - National - smh.com.au
Church and state need to get out of each other's pockets, and give secularism a fair go, argues Keith Austin.
www.kansascity.com | 02/22/2008 | MIDWEST VOICES: Let us bow our heads in thanks for atheists
Nonbelievers know a lot about Christianity and Judaism, most having been raised in religious families. Believers, however, are somewhat less clued-in about atheists. Here are a few simple truths about who they are, and aren’t.
Edge: WHY THE GODS ARE NOT WINNING By Gregory Paul & Phil Zuckerman
the main reason the United States is the only prosperous democracy that retains a high level of religious belief and activity is because we have substandard socio-economic conditions and the highest level of disparity.
RichardDawkins.net - The Official Richard Dawkins Website
A German judge has stirred a storm of protest here by citing the Koran in turning down a German Muslim woman's request for a fast-track divorce on the ground that her husband beat her.
Point of Inquiry » Episode Archive » Salman Rushdie - Secular Values, Human Rights and Islamism
On October 11, 2006, Salman Rushdie addressed an audience at an event sponsored the Center for Inquiry’s New York branch, held at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
The Evangelical Atheist » Blog Archive » Christian Nationalism
They are systematically breeding, training, deploying, and installing judges into the US legal system in an attempt to adjudicate the conversion of our country from quasi secularism to full blown theocracy.
ministerturnsatheist.org -- Why I Am An Atheist
I am an atheist because the god believer has the burden of proof when trying to establish the existence of a god and has not met that burden
Truthdig - An Atheist Manifesto
There is another possibility, of course, and it is both the most reasonable and least odious: The biblical God is a fiction. As Richard Dawkins has observed, we are all atheists with respect to Zeus and Thor. Only the atheist has realized that the biblica
CSH e-Newsletter January 06
The stories of the birth of Jesus are late, legendary, and totally without historical merit. They are the additions of devotional writers who are at cross-purposes over whether to understand Jesus in messianic or heroic context and end up doing both.
The Enlightenment is over, and atheism has lost its moral cutting edge - Newspaper Edition - Times Online
Atheism has, quite simply, lost much of its moral and intellectual cutting edge in recent decades. And unless it sorts itself out, it is not going to regain it.
The world is not magic | Cosmic Variance
The world is not magic. The world follows patterns, obeys unbreakable rules. We never reach a point, in exploring our universe, where we reach an ineffable mystery and must give up on rational explanation; our world is comprehensible, it makes sense.
George Monbiot » Better off without Him
But if we are to accept the findings [...] the message to those who claim in any sense to be pro-life is unequivocal. If you want people to behave as Christians advocate, you should tell them that God does not exist.
Amazon.com : Interview with Sam Harris: The Mortal Dangers of Religious Faith
Harris wrote The End of Faith out of a sense of urgency regarding what he argues constitutes perhaps the greatest threat we face today. He shared his thoughts about the character of dogmatic faith versus mysticism, the role of reason in civil discourse, a
The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > 'The End of Faith': Against Toleration
Harris also drifts into arenas of marginal relevance to his main thesis... Still, this is an important book, on a topic that, for all its inherent difficulty and divisiveness, should not be shielded from the crucible of human reason.
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