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3 months ago

Britain is entering its first 'atheist age': Non-believers now outnumber those who believe in God - as parents fail to pass their religious beliefs on to their children, study finds

Britain is entering its first 'atheist age' as parents fail to pass on religious beliefs to children, a study says. The team also discovered that the stereotype of the 'purposeless unbeliever' – that atheists lead lives devoid of meaning, morality and purpose – simply isn't accurate. Graph showing the number of people in English and Welsh regions giving up Christianity …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Even atheists wonder ‘why are we here?’ Inside an awe-inspiring adventure for L.A.’s non-believers

LA Times

In the cold dark of a November night, beneath the jagged cliffs of Zion National Park, Dani Hsia posed a question that mystics and religious thinkers have pondered for millenniums. “I don’t feel like I’m an outsider, and I don’t feel like my religious views have to be hidden.” Hsia, who was dressed in a purple and pink polka dot …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Nonreligious struggle to find their voice and place in Indian society and politics

The Independent

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “There are delays with documents when you don’t state your religion,” said …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Highlights from AP-NORC poll about the religiously unaffiliated in the US

Associated Press

Thirty percent of Americans don’t identify with a religious group — but not all of them are atheists or agnostics. In fact, 43% of the group known as the “nones” say they believe in God, even if they largely dislike organized religion. GOD WITHOUT RELIGION Forty-three percent of all nones professed belief in God or a higher power — including …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Raised by Wolves review: Richly imagined sci-fi allegory about parenting in the time of war and dogmatism

Firstpost

John Lennon famously asked us to imagine a world with “no heaven,” “no hell,” “no religion,” and “nothing to kill or die for.” The hypotheticals are as quixotic as they come. Two atheist androids, a Mother and a Father, are sent to the planet Kepler 22b, tasked with restarting a new and improved atheistic human civilisation. It’s these ideas that …

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2 years, 5 months ago

What Is the difference between atheists and theists? | OPINION

India Today

The basic difference between a religion and a spiritual process is that a religion is essentially coming from a set of belief systems but a spiritual process is a seeking. They will start saying, “God created the entire universe,” though they do not know a damn thing. Suppose you are not eating well, and you have no food people believe, …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Forced religious conversion cannot be measure of spread of any religion, says Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Firstpost

Naqvi said both believers and atheists have equal constitutional and social rights and protection in India. New Delhi: Forced religious conversions cannot be the measure of spread of any religion in a nation like India, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Tuesday and asserted that both believers and atheists co-exist with equal rights in this country. In his …

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4 years, 7 months ago

The future belongs to rationalists: Javed Akhtar

Hindustan Times

It was in 2012, at the Jaipur Literature Festival, that Javed Akhtar, during a post session QnA, praised the gentleman who had just made an impassioned speech for the need for rationality and scientific temper: “If someone asks me to name three great intellectuals in the world, I would have to think about the other two.” The gentleman to whom …

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4 years, 10 months ago

Can atheists make their case without devolving into bigotry?

Al Jazeera

They can, but for examples we must look to James Baldwin and Stephen Hawking, not the ‘enlightened’ Richard Dawkins. As someone who fancies himself an Enlightened free thinker of a higher moral and ethical standing than religious believers, Dawkins failed to note that even the possibility of eugenics would necessarily open up a discussion about “desirable” and “undesirable” qualities in …

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5 years ago

Churchgoers are less likely to own cats than atheists, study finds

Daily Mail

Cats are 'very godlike', which make them more likely to be owned by atheists than churchgoers as a substitute for religion, according to a new study. People who worshipped more than once a week own 1.4 cats on average compared an atheists who have two, University of Oklahoma study finds 'We own pets because we love their company and the …

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5 years, 4 months ago

Court Approves Banning Atheists From Reciting Opening Prayers At State Legislature

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING A federal appeals court ruling on legislative prayer has alarmed secular activists who say the decision privileges people who believe in God and treats nontheists like “second-class citizens.” The 3rd U.S. Judge Thomas L. Ambro, who wrote Friday’s 2-1 majority opinion, claimed that because prayer presupposes a higher power, “only theistic invocations can achieve all the purposes …

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5 years, 8 months ago

Vijayawada: Atheists challenge astrologers

Deccan Chronicle

Vijayawada: The AP State Atheist Association has offered to felicitate astrologers and pundits who correctly predict various aspects of the election results due on May 23. Association president N. Venkata Subbaiah said astrologers and pundits provide their detailed predictions for the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections regarding the Telugu Desam, YSRC, Jana Sena and parties in the sealed cover by …

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