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These articles explore atheism, secular thinking, and reason. We aim to challenge assumptions, promote clarity, and share new perspectives.

  • The 25 Most Common Religious Fallacies

    And Why They Fail Under Examination Introduction Religious claims face a fundamental problem. They assert the existence of a god while lacking publicly verifiable evidence for that claim. This is not a minor gap or an unresolved detail. It is a structural limitation. Gods are defined in ways that place them outside observation, testing, prediction,


  • Degrees, Data and Deception

    Why Pseudoscience Imitates Science Instead of Replacing It There is a peculiar contradiction at the heart of modern religious pseudoscience. Those who claim to reject science routinely borrow its authority.Those who dismiss scientific institutions cling to scientific titles.Those who argue that evidence is unnecessary work tirelessly to look evidential. This is not accidental. It reveals


  • If We All Die, Does God Die Too?

    Religions insist God is eternal. Self-existent. Immune to time, decay, and extinction. Yet beneath the confidence sits a question believers rarely face head-on: What is a god without believers? Imagine humanity wipes itself out. War. Climate collapse. A final silence. No prayers. No hymns. No scripture read, feared, obeyed, or defended. No one left to


  • Shaking Watches and Shaking Hands With Ignorance

    Why the Watchmaker Analogy Fails Before It Even Begins Few arguments against evolution spread as easily as the image of a man shaking a bag of watch parts, yawning while he waits for a Rolex to assemble itself. The caption varies, but the message is always the same: if a watch cannot assemble by chance,


  • The Silent Observer

    Most religions insist on two foundational claims about God. God is everywhere.God knows everything. Not poetically. Not symbolically. Literally. God is omnipresent and omniscient. There is no corner of reality outside his awareness. No moment he does not witness. No act he does not see. Nothing escapes his attention. Taken seriously, this creates one of


  • Why Religion Promises Life After Death and Delivers Suffering on Earth

    Religion offers humanity a trade.Accept suffering now, and you will be compensated later. Obey in life, and justice will arrive after death. Endure pain, suppress doubt, and meaning will eventually be revealed. This bargain is not incidental. It is structural. The afterlife is where religion relocates all the things it cannot explain, justify, or deliver


  • God, Granted for a Moment

    A Thought Experiment on Divine Irrelevance This is not an argument for god.It is a controlled thought experiment. For the sake of analysis only, let us assume that a god exists and triggered the universe into being. We will not argue for this claim, defend it, or attempt to make it plausible. We grant it


  • The Five-Step Creationist Script

    Or: How to Lose an Argument While Thinking You’ve Won It Every attack on evolution from a religious standpoint follows the same path. Not broadly. Not loosely. Mechanically. Different authors, different platforms, same manoeuvres. Same misunderstandings. Same end point. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it. The argument ceases to look like reasoning and


  • The Myth of “Kinds”: Why This Religious Idea Exists, Why It Fails, and Why It Matters

    One of the most common religious challenges to evolutionary biology is framed as a simple demand: “Show me where a new kind was created.” It is often presented as a scientific objection. It is not. The argument depends on a term that has no standing in biology, no agreed definition, and no measurable boundary. “Kind”


  • The Old Story Retold: How the Jesus Narrative Echoes Ancient Myth Cycles

    1. Introduction Religions often claim that their central stories are unique. Christianity presents the life of Jesus as a once in history revelation. A divine birth. A perfect teacher. A sacrificial death. A triumphant return. These events are taught as singular and unprecedented, the point where human history meets divine purpose. Yet when viewed across


  • From Abacus to AI: The Evolution of Computing as a Living Model of How Complexity Arises in Nature

    Human civilisation is now so accustomed to advanced technology that we forget how astonishing it truly is. A smartphone contains billions of transistors. A modern processor performs billions of operations every second. Artificial intelligence platforms analyse language, recognise patterns, and predict outcomes at scales that exceed human capacity. Yet if you placed humanity’s most brilliant


  • The Rise of the Closet Atheist: Believers in Public, Doubters in Private

    1. Introduction There is a growing group of people who call themselves believers yet live entirely as nonbelievers. They attend religious events, speak the language of faith and may even defend their religion in public. But when you follow their behaviour, their choices, their explanations of the world and their daily habits, something becomes clear.


  • Why We Search for Gods: The Psychology, History and Human Need Behind Religion

    Introduction: Humanity´s Oldest Instinct Every civilisation that ever existed created some kind of god. This is one of the most revealing facts about our species. It is not a universal proof of the divine. It is a universal proof of the human need for the divine. When early humans looked at a violent, uncertain world,


  • Blasphemy Is Not Real

    1. Introduction There are few words that travel so confidently through history despite having no solid ground beneath them. Blasphemy is one of them. It sits at the centre of religious emotion, moral panic and political control. To believers it feels like a genuine offence. It feels like something dangerous has been violated. It feels


  • Morality Without God

    Introduction: The Question That Never Dies Whenever someone rejects religion, the same question quickly follows: if there is no God, what stops you from doing evil? It is a claim repeated for centuries, from pulpits and parliament floors to dinner tables and comment sections. It sounds reasonable only until it is examined. Human beings do


  • Science vs Religion: Why Evidence Outweighs Faith

    Introduction: Two Ways of Knowing Since the dawn of thought, humanity has sought to explain the world around it. Before the language of atoms, there was the language of gods. Lightning became anger, illness became punishment, and existence itself was a story told to calm fear. Then came evidence. The scientific method transformed explanation into


  • The Best Atheist Books That Shaped Modern Thought

    Across history, a handful of writers have reshaped how humanity thinks about belief, doubt, and evidence. Their books continue to challenge assumptions and inspire independent thinking. 1. The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins A biologist’s case for a natural world without design. Dawkins argues that evolution and probability explain complexity better than divine purpose. 2.


  • Agnostic vs Atheist: The Difference Most People Get Wrong

    An atheist does not believe in any gods.An agnostic does not claim to know whether a god exists. People confuse the two because they assume belief and knowledge are the same thing. They are not. The core difference is simple: atheism is about belief, while agnosticism is about knowledge. One answers what you believe. The


  • The Accident of Faith: How Birthplace and Indoctrination Decide Your God

    1. The Island Child Imagine a child born alone on an island, untouched by human stories.No priests, no prophets, no holy books.Would this child invent your god?And if that same child died without belief, would they go to Heaven? That single question exposes a deep flaw in every religion that claims moral authority. If salvation


  • The Last Bastions of Belief in the Age of Information

    Why Islam and America Resist the Global Exit from Religion 1. Knowledge as the Great Dissolver Across much of the developed world, religion is not under attack, it is simply evaporating. The quiet revolution of information has dissolved the soil in which faith once grew. The more access people have to science, education, and open


  • Gilded Altars, Empty Bowls: The Church’s Obsession with Gold While the Poor Starve

    Introduction Gold glitters across altars, chalices, and crosses. It adorns vestments and ceilings, shimmering in candlelight as choirs sing beneath domes painted with saints. To the believer, this radiance may suggest the light of heaven. To the critic, it speaks of earthly wealth disguised as holiness. For centuries the Christian world has surrounded itself with


  • From Molecules to Meaning: How Abiogenesis Will Pull the Last Rug from Under Religion

    Introduction: The Final Mystery Religion has spent centuries retreating from the expanding frontier of human knowledge. When thunder was unexplained, it was a god’s anger. When disease spread, it was punishment. When life diversified, it was divine design. Each time, science switched on the light and the shadows fled. Today, the final shadow is the


  • Half a Face, Half a Freedom: When God Spoke Only to Men

    Opening – One Eye Open In May 2022 the Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice decreed that Afghan women must cover their faces in public, ideally wearing the full-body burqa leaving only the eyes visible (PBS NewsHour). In August 2024 that decree became formal law, part of a morality code


  • Every Tragedy is a Gift to Religion

    1. The Cycle of Fear and Faith Every generation is persuaded that it stands at the edge of collapse. Empires tremble, morality decays, nations drift, and in the noise of anxiety religion always finds its voice. The message is as old as the pulpit itself: the world has turned from God, and the proof is


  • The Flood Myth, Why It’s Good It Never Happened

    Foreword Across Facebook and YouTube, a new style of creationist content has taken hold. It sounds calm. It uses scientific vocabulary. It sprinkles in fossils, volcanoes, salinity, even the word “isotope”. Then, after the polite tour, it reveals the destination: “This is consistent with Noah’s Flood.” It is not science. It is theology in a


  • Thought Crime: The Oldest Sin

    Introduction: The Mind Under Siege Thought crime is the purest tyranny. It punishes not deeds, but ideas. In 1984 George Orwell made it literal: the Party prosecutes citizens for thoughtcrime, using telescreens, hidden microphones, reenactment, minders. But totalitarian regimes are not the only offenders. Religion long ago claimed the same domain: inner life, doubt, desire,


  • Atheists Don’t Believe Everything Came From Nothing

    1. What Atheism Actually Means The claim that “atheists believe everything came from nothing” is one of the most repeated but least accurate arguments used against non-believers. It is catchy, confident, and completely wrong. To dismantle it, one must start at the beginning: what atheism actually is. Atheism is the absence of belief in gods


  • Criticism Isn’t Hatred: Why We Must Defend the Right to Debate Islam

    Introduction Few words in modern discourse are as misunderstood as Islamophobia. It is used to describe genuine prejudice and violence against Muslims, yet it is also deployed to silence reasoned criticism of Islamic ideas. This confusion has paralysed honest debate and made intellectual inquiry feel like moral trespass. It is possible, indeed essential, to oppose


  • No, We Did Not Evolve from Monkeys

    Part 1 – The Monkey Myth Religion has always tried to place humanity apart from nature. It promises that we are chosen, designed, watched, and judged. Evolution shattered that illusion. It placed us back among the animals, as one branch on an immense and ancient tree of life. Since Darwin first proposed it, the simplest


  • The Crime of Faith Before Reason

    There is no greater betrayal of the human mind than to take a child, born curious and fearless, and fill it with fear before it has learned to think. Religion calls it teaching. The honest word is indoctrination. Across cultures and centuries, the same formula repeats: before the brain can reason, it is branded with


  • A Universe Designed for Us? You Must Be Joking.

    There is a certain human arrogance in believing that the Universe was created for us. To look at the staggering scale of the cosmos and conclude that it all exists for one species on one small rock in one minor galaxy is to misunderstand the most basic data of reality. The evidence is overwhelming that


  • The Cult of Complexity: How Pseudo-Scientists Hijack Evolution to Sell Design

    Introduction: The Return of the False Scholar Across social media, blogs and glossy pseudo-academic websites, a new kind of missionary has emerged. He is not robed in theology but cloaked in the white coat of science. He writes long essays filled with biological jargon, geological data and chemical complexity. He dazzles with vocabulary, pretends to


  • The Smug Certainty of the Theist

    The Comfort of Knowing Without Knowing Among the most striking qualities of the religious believer is the smug certainty that they are right. No evidence, no reasoned argument, no scientific progress can dent the conviction that God exists, that He loves them, and that their particular brand of belief holds the keys to the universe.


  • Life After Religion: Stories of Freedom, Doubt, and Discovery

    Leaving religion is often described as losing something — faith, community, certainty, identity. For many, though, it feels less like loss and more like release. Life after religion is not the end of meaning; it is the beginning of ownership. It is the moment people stop living someone else’s story and start writing their own.


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