While we have Billy Joel and Richard Branson as today’s star players for Team Atheism, the original pioneer of godlessness in the ancient world was Greek poet Diagoras of Melos, who lived 500 years ...

People in the ancient world did not always believe in the gods, a new study suggests – casting doubt on the idea that religious belief is a "default setting" for humans. Despite being written out of ...

Nick Spencer begins his spirited history of atheism with a fairy tale. Once upon a time, people lived in ignorant superstition, offering sacrifices to monsters in the sky. Then some clever folks used ...

Religion historian Leigh Eric Schmidt is the author of half a dozen books on religion, but it is the non-religious who have captured his attention in his latest book, Village Atheists: How America's ...

Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief – known in the United States as A Brief History of Disbelief – is a 2004 television documentary series written and presented by Jonathan Miller for the BBC and ...

In general, Americans do not like atheists. In studies, they say they feel coldly toward nonbelievers; it’s estimated that more than half of the population say they’d be less likely to vote for a ...

In a blog entry at BET, Cord Jefferson says that members of a rising African-American atheist movement want to remind people that not all prominent black leaders and artists hailed from the church. He ...

Pop goes the philosophy–it’s time for top 10 ancient atheist philosophers and their quotes. Philosophers aren’t always atheists. The one I dated for 7 years was though–I still tease her by saying God ...

Say the words "British," "scientist" and "atheist" and the first person to come to mind probably isn't Stephen Hawking. But while Hawking, the theoretical physicist who died Wednesday at age 76, was ...

Philosophy professor Larimore Nicholl's guest column promoting atheism as the only worldview for intelligent people is interesting but flawed. He asserts "science is eclipsing religion," and "modern ...