Those who believe in a higher being are instinctively considered more moral, a new study claims Atheists "are broadly perceived as potentially morally depraved and dangerous" - even in secular ...

In these conversations with patients who are wary of religion, Callahan slips in another detail: He’s an atheist himself. Callahan is one of a growing number of openly atheist chaplains working ...

The term gnosticism is often used as a sort of umbrella term to cover the people that the leaders of the church don't like. It covers probably a huge variety of points of view. And yet there is a ...

Once upon a time, not so long ago, atheism was the belief system that dared not speak its name. Even the most ardent skeptic paid lip service to faith, or at least to the blessings that mankind ...

Looking back on his atheist days, playing in a rock group with 100,000 kids ... He taught Biblical Studies and Early Christianity, and was a lecturer in Coptic Studies and Gnosticism and Early ...

The notion that atheists lack a moral compass is a prevalent stereotype across many cultures. This stereotype suggests that ...

It has been not-quite-a-year since I began saying Kaddish for my father – a reasonable thing to do as a Jew, but perhaps a puzzling thing to do as an atheist. I am both. So what does it mean to ...

Being an atheist in Pakistan can be life-threatening. But behind closed doors, non-believers are getting together to support one another. How do they survive in a nation where blasphemy carries a ...

The heyday of the new atheism in Western life, when anti-God tracts by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens bestrode best-seller lists, did not arrive because brilliant new arguments for God ...

This mysterious poem, discovered among the gnostic manuscripts at Nag Hammadi, is narrated by a female divine revealer. " 'Thunder Perfect Mind' is a marvelous, strange poem. It speaks in the ...

Anxiety about the threat of atheism was rampant in the early modern period, yet fully documented examples of openly expressed irreligious opinion are surprisingly rare. England and Scotland saw only a ...

“Every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven,” Jesus tells his disciples in the gnostic Gospel of ... A former atheist – who stuck up a poster reading “F–K ...