An atheist confesses a deep admiration for religious art and cultural expressions, viewing them as masterful "total artworks.

Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens recorded a two-hour conversation in 2007 deriding religion that got millions of YouTube views and was said to have sparked an ...

“Taking Religion Seriously” is, in that sense, typical of its author. Mr. Murray wasn’t searching for religious belief. His ...

Two French mathematicians, West London-based Olivier Bonnassies, 59, and Michel-Yves Bolloré, 79, from Paris, say 'Science is ...

Few living thinkers have been as influential—or controversial—as Richard Dawkins. An evolutionary biologist by training, Dawkins rose to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which ...

A religious quest can still be a rational undertaking — not a leap into pure mystery. By Ross Douthat Fear that culture will be made obsolete by artificial intelligence is not an overestimation of ...

For many years, I believed I was a hardcore atheist. I came out about this soon after my father, a theologian trained at the Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, died. At that time, around ...

After receiving a bit of response to last week’s entry in this series, I decided to do a follow-up that delves a little into the subject of atheism. An atheist is defined as “a person who does not ...

Regarding the op-ed “Famous atheist’s pivot doesn’t surprise me as a pastor” (March 29): Wow! This pastor must live in a compartmentalized little world. I stopped fantasizing about my “invisible ...