Opinion:FFRF Gives Alabama Its First Ever Atheist Billboard

By Freedom From Religion Foundation June 25, 2009

A 14x48-foot billboard emblazoned with the John Lennonesque message, "Imagine No Religion," and a stained-glass window backdrop, went up this week for one month on I-20, near the Riverside exit en route to Talladega. Drivers going to Talladega from Atlanta or Birmingham will pass the billboard...

Opinion:Supreme Court Should Stop Cross on Public Land Scheme

By Americans United August 04, 2009

Americans United for Separation of Church and State has urged the Supreme Court to overturn a congressional scheme to maintain a cross on public land in California, insisting that government should refrain from displaying sectarian symbols. Americans United made the argument in a...

Opinion:If You Don't Matter to God, You Don't Matter to Anyone

By Answers in Genesis April 20, 2009

By Ken Ham, President and CEO of Answers in Genesis April 20, 2009, is the 10-year anniversary of a most horrific act of school violence. Beginning at 11:19 a.m. at suburban Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, high school seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and...

Video:Pat Robertson Says Christians and Atheists Can't Marry

By Texas Freedom Network May 07, 2009

What to do if you're a Christian in love with an atheist? Religious-right pooh-bah Pat Robertson offers relationship advice: "There is no fellowship between an atheist and somebody who is a believer in God. . . . You've got to go find somebody else. Really. I mean either he changes and gives his...

Opinion:You Can't Believe in Both Creationism & Evolution

By Answers in Genesis May 11, 2009

Read the following and see if you can guess who teaches this (hints: He is a best-selling author; this man is a well-known scientist who claims to be an “evangelical Christian”; he was a keynote speaker at the U.S. National Prayer Breakfast in 2007): Belief in a supernatural creator always...

Opinion:Atheists Oppose Religion in New Capitol Visitors Center

By American Atheists June 29, 2009

An Atheist public policy group today urged Congress to reject a House Resolution that would use more tax money to display religious mottos in the new Capitol Visitors Center (CVC) in Washington, DC. Introduced by Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Ca.), the measure instructs the Capitol Architect to erect...

Opinions:Atheists Bash NASA for "Space Missionary" Program

By American Atheists August 30, 2009

An Atheist-First Amendment public policy group charged today that NASA is violating the separation of church and state by permitting a "space missionary" memento on the latest Discovery Space Shuttle Mission. On board the shuttle is a piece of an airplane that crashed in Ecuador in 1956 that...

News:Atheists Applaud Obama for Including Them in Fort Hood Speech

By American Atheists November 08, 2009

THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT! ATHEISTS PRAISE PRESIDENT OBAMA FOR INCLUDING NONBELIEVERS IN MESSAGE ABOUT FT. HOOD TRAGEDY... An Atheist civil rights group today praised President Obama for including "nonbelievers" in a broadcast thanking a diverse group of Americans serving in our nation's...

Video:Video Attempts to Explain that Atheism is NOT a Religion

By John W. Loftus November 29, 2009

Ed. Note: John W. Loftus says nothing bothers atheists more than when people call atheism a " religion ," or when they say you need "faith" to be an atheist. They will tell you that atheism is actually "the absence of faith." This video offers a more detailed explanation of the controversy:

Opinion:Kids are Rejecting Religion, Thanks to Entertainment Industry

By John W. Loftus December 03, 2009

Parents beware! The younger generation is rejecting the faith of their fathers and the rise of the internet is making a great impact on them. Today's music, movies, and video games are also making an impact. Just yesterday a young friend told me that in a newly released...

Video:Atheists Doth Protest Too Much-Do They Secretly Believe in God?

By John W. Loftus December 28, 2009

Is it true that because we atheists argue against God that we secretly believe? Balderdash! Watch this video that explores the question:

Opinion:Global Warming is Now a Religion

By The Cato Institute October 28, 2009

Novelist Michael Crichton said that environmentalism had all the trappings of a religion : “Eden, the fall of man, the loss of grace, the coming doomsday.” I never took such claims entirely seriously. But then I heard this statement from a Montana writer, Jim Robbins, interviewed by the...

Opinion:Looking Back at the "Is God Dead?" Movement of the 60s

By Reason Foundation November 05, 2009

by Tim Cavanaugh Add the Almighty Creator of the Universe to the long list of beloved characters who have survived their own deaths . At Obit mag, Nathan Schneider resurrects the "death of God" movement of the 1960s. This theological school is best remembered today by a Time mag cover...

Opinion:Atheism Rare Among Prison Population

By John W. Loftus November 22, 2009

I saw two articles on the relative proportion of atheists in prisons versus religious groups, and I thought it worth sharing. First, a compilation of present-day statistics: atheists, being a moderate proportion of the USA population (about 8-16%) are disproportionately less in the...

Opinion:'The Invention of Lying' Contains Sinister Anti-God Message

By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights October 04, 2009

Jeff Field, policy analyst and editor of the Catholic League’s monthly journal, Catalyst, provided Bill Donohue with a review of “The Invention of Lying”; Field saw the movie today in New York City. Here are Donohue’s thoughts on it: The trailer to the movie gave no indication of its...

Opinion:'Faith Healing' Does Not Belong in Our Health Care Bills

By American Atheists October 05, 2009

An Atheist public policy organization today called for elimination of requirements in Senate legislation which would reimburse faith-based "healers" for their services. The Senate Finance Committee has taken up the America's Healthy Future Act of 2009 which has an amendment titled "Religious...

Opinion:Atheists Now After Ministers' Housing Allowances

By Pacific Justice Institute October 23, 2009

Sacramento, CA – Sacramento-based Pacific Justice Institute is filing court papers this week to intervene in a federal lawsuit filed Friday by well-known atheist Michael Newdow. The lawsuit challenges long-standing federal and state tax exemptions for housing allowances provided by churches...

Opinion:Christopher Hitchens Calls Mother Teresa a Fanatic and a Fraud

By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights November 03, 2009

On October 30, atheist Christopher Hitchens appeared on Dennis Miller’s Internet radio show condemning Mother Teresa, yet again. Here is one of his choice statements: “The woman was a fanatic and a fundamentalist and a fraud, and millions of people are much worse off because of her life, and...

Opinion:Atheists Concerned Over UN Defamation of Religions Resolution

By American Atheists November 03, 2009

An Atheist civil rights group today expressed concern that a proposed U.N. Resolution banning "defamation" of religion threatens civil liberties and gives religious groups "special rights" at the expense of free speech and intellectual inquiry. The proposed measure is backed by the...

Opinion:Anti-Christmas Campaigns Only Benefit Fellow Atheists

By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights December 02, 2009

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest Grinch campaigns: This is a lonely time of year for those who believe in nothing. Most, however, manage to get by without lashing out at believers. But not the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Last year, this group took its campaign to...

Opinion:Atheist Kids’ Film "The Golden Compass" Will Not Get a Sequel

By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights December 16, 2009

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on reports that there will be no sequel to “The Golden Compass,” the movie based on the first book of a trilogy by English author Philip Pullman: Two years ago, the Catholic League launched a boycott of “The Golden Compass” in the hope...

Poll:Is There a God?

By Opposing Views Editorial Staff August 04, 2009

Video:Author Dinesh D'Souza Says Life After Death Can be Proved

By Opposing Views Editorial Staff November 05, 2009

Conservative author Dinesh D'Souza recently spoke with Fox's Greta Van Susteren about his new book "Life After Death: The Evidence," in which he purports that documented cases of near death experiences give true, scientific credence to the prospect of an afterlife.

Opinion:Christopher Hitchens Slams Catholic Church for History of Sins

By Opposing Views Editorial Staff December 01, 2009

In this video , writer and avowed atheist Christopher Hitchens engages in an October 2009 debate over whether or not "the Catholic Church is a force for good in the world." Hitchens says that "any argument trying to identify the merits of the Catholic Church must begin with a long list of...

Opinion:Top Atheist Group Started Because of Abortion Rights

By Christian News Wire December 21, 2009

MADISON, WI -- According to the December 2009 edition of the Isthmus, the Freedom From Religion Foundation began in Madison in 1976 after the founders saw Christians opposing abortion at legislative meetings at the Wisconsin State Capitol. The founders, Annie Laurie Gaylor and mother...

Opinion:10 Worst Attacks on Faith, Family & Freedom in 2009

By Christian News Wire December 23, 2009

SACRAMENTO, CA -- As we look back on 2009, the Pacific Justice Institute recalls ten of the worst attacks on faith, family and freedom we encountered this year. 1) Atheist Michael Newdow went to federal court seeking to stop prayers at President Obama's inauguration, and the use of "So help me...