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

  • 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 – What’s the Real Difference?

    The phrase “agnostic vs atheist” confuses many people. It’s often treated as a single question of belief, but in truth these are two separate axes — belief and knowledge. Short answer:Atheism is about belief. An atheist does not believe any gods exist.Agnosticism is about knowledge. An agnostic says the truth about gods is unknown or…


  • 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.…


  • Why Religion Opposes LGBTQ+ Rights — And Why It Shouldn’t

    Across centuries, organised religion has condemned those whose love or identity does not fit within its narrow definitions. It has preached tolerance from pulpits while legislating cruelty from thrones. It has built temples to mercy while punishing people for simply existing. The story of religion and LGBTQ+ people is not a moral conflict but a…


  • Meaning Without a Master: How Atheists Create Purpose

    For as long as humans have been able to ask questions, one has haunted us more than any other: why are we here?Religion claims to answer it with comforting symmetry. God made you, loves you, tests you, and rewards or punishes you. The narrative is simple, circular, and satisfying. It replaces uncertainty with a story.…


  • Can Atheists Be Moral Without God? The Ethics of Secular Humanism

    For centuries, believers have argued that morality comes from God. They claim that without divine command, humans would have no compass, no concept of right or wrong. Atheists are told that, without heaven’s reward or hell’s punishment, they have no reason to behave. It sounds persuasive until you ask one simple question: if morality truly…


  • The Quran, the Bible, and the Torah: Three Books, One God?

    Three books claim to speak for the same god. Each insists it carries the truth, yet each contradicts the others. The Torah, the Bible, and the Quran are presented as divine revelations, but together they tell a story of revision, rivalry, and human ambition. They are not three messages from one source but three versions…


  • Is the Bible Historically Accurate? Scholars vs Scripture

    For billions of believers, the Bible is not just a book but a blueprint for life. It claims divine origin, moral authority, and historical truth. Yet when those claims are placed under academic light, the paper begins to burn. What emerges is a record shaped by politics, translation, revision, and myth-making — a library of…


  • Can Science Disprove God? Exploring Evidence, Logic, and Faith

    Science and religion have coexisted uneasily for centuries. One claims knowledge through evidence, the other through revelation. Each explains the universe in its own language, but only one can be tested. The question is not whether science disproves god, but whether the idea of god still explains anything that science cannot. The honest answer is…


  • Why People Become Atheists: The Psychology of Losing Faith

    Religion often begins in childhood. It is given, not chosen. For most people, belief comes long before curiosity, and tradition replaces evidence. Yet millions around the world eventually step away from their inherited faith. They call themselves atheists, not because they reject meaning, but because they refuse to pretend certainty. Why does that shift happen?…


  • Agnosticism vs Atheism: The Real Difference Explained

    Most people treat atheism and agnosticism as if they are identical. They are not.The two words describe very different positions on two separate questions: belief and knowledge. Understanding the difference matters, because confusing them has allowed religion to paint both as arrogant or empty, when in reality they are simply rational answers to two distinct…


  • What Is Atheism? The Definition, History, and Modern Meaning

    Introduction Ask ten people what atheism means and you’ll likely get eleven answers.Some think it’s rebellion, others call it emptiness, yet at its core atheism is simply the absence of belief in gods. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s not a faith, not a creed, not a club — it’s a position on one specific question:…


  • Why Do We Still Say “Gay Marriage”? Religion’s Obsession With Gender

    When two people marry, why must we label it “gay marriage”? No one calls a straight wedding “heterosexual marriage”. The phrase itself betrays a lingering need to qualify equality, as if the word “marriage” still belongs to religion. Religions have long claimed dominion over human identity. They decide who may love, what roles each gender…


  • The Proof That Never Comes: Why Faith Fails the Simplest Test

    If there truly were a god, the debate would have ended long ago. One simple act of demonstration — a single, undeniable proof — and atheism would vanish overnight. Yet after millennia of worship, wars, and endless sermons, the world remains waiting. The silence is deafening. Christopher Hitchens once wrote, “That which can be asserted…


  • Why Faith Fails Women

    Part I – The Invention of Holy Obedience Every civilisation begins by explaining its own power. The earliest priests and kings did not invent gods because they understood divinity. They invented gods because they understood obedience. A voice from heaven is harder to argue with than a man on a throne. Religion became the first…


  • From Tribe to Empire: The Rise of the Sky-God Books

    Religious history is often told as a story of divine revelation. The Torah, the New Testament, and the Qur’an are presented as timeless wisdom from heaven. Yet when read historically they reveal a very different pattern. Each book did not simply appear; it was composed to address specific political crises, cultural needs, and struggles for…


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