Chris Hedges, Free Press. March 22, 2008. From demonizing Muslims to believing we can use science for our own moral advancement, the New Atheists preach a dangerous faith.
Steven Reynolds, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 6, 2008. At the very least, atheists aren’t going to make it anywhere in the army during the Bush Administration.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: PEEK. January 21, 2008. Organized religion is in the decline in Canada, and some are laying the responsibility at the door of feminism.
Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet: PEEK. September 19, 2007. Lindsay Beyerstein: Spec. Hall's superiors prevented him from holding a meeting for atheists and other non-Christians.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. June 18, 2007. Who's more ridiculous: "Christian" Islamophobes obsessed with the "threat to civilization" posed by "Islamofacism" or atheist evangelists who think religion is the root of all evil?
Ronald Aronson, The Nation. June 16, 2007. An increasingly outspoken community of atheists and agnostics is getting fed up with being marginalized, ignored and insulted.
Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. May 29, 2007. Christopher Hitchens debated Chris Hedges in a battle of wits and faith over the meaning of religion in our lives and politics today.
Daniel Lazare, The Nation. May 15, 2007. In their rush to throw out God, atheist writers appear to have given little thought to what should replace the deity.
Ellen Goodman, Truthdig. March 24, 2007. Representative Pete Stark is the highest-ranking politician in American history say publicly that he doesn't believe a "supreme being" -- but believes that real political courage is saying, "Let's tax the rich and give money to poor kids."
Alister McGrath, AlterNet. January 26, 2007. An Oxford theologian contends that the aggressive rhetoric of Richard Dawkins' books masks a deep insecurity about the public credibility of atheism.
Terrence McNally, AlterNet. January 18, 2007. In the last few years, Americans have seen the harm that results when political decisions are made in the name of religion. Now, the non-believers are fighting back.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. January 10, 2007. AlterNet readers give their views about the bestselling author of "End of Faith" and the meaning behind some of his more controversial ideas.