https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to new atheism en https://religiondispatches.org/2018/02/01/how-mens-rights-activists-are-finding-unlikely-allies-new-atheism-metoo-manosphere-and Anyone familiar with the Internet’s “Manosphere” will be unsurprised to learn that ” Red Pillers” and Men’s Rights Activists are fed up with the #MeToo movement. What is, perhaps, more surprising is the number of New Atheist figureheads in which… Thu, 01 Feb 2018 03:58:35 EST Caroline Matas db424a35-e0e4-4396-a50a-cc3aa08ee926 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/02/26/atheisms-dark-side-aiding-trump-agenda Sam Harris recently appeared in a one-on-one segment on Real Time With Bill Maher to discuss Donald Trump’s immigration ban, which he criticized for being poorly executed and too sweeping, though he approves of the goal of keeping radicals out… Sun, 26 Feb 2017 08:44:51 EST Stephen LeDrew c602093b-3db0-4622-842e-f2a27c7fe71c https://religiondispatches.org/2016/12/22/it-immoral-believe-miracles Whether it’s the Christmas miracle, the dreidel proclaiming that “a great miracle happened there,” or Saturday Night Live poking fun at the miracle narrative, ‘tis the season for miracle mentions to become commonplace. Thu, 22 Dec 2016 08:35:54 EST Noah Berlatsky 28aa76d1-531c-4fff-b7b4-0749347f93da https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/14/will-new-dawkins-foundation-sponsored-app-help-atheists-talk-believers The most outspoken non-believers have been antagonistic, bombastic, and sometimes profoundly embarrassing older white men. Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:56:38 EDT Alana Massey 435ff17d-e1f2-4880-8ca9-9d86b8a6cfc2 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/30/how-do-christians-atheists-compare-muslim-tolerance Despite the clear animus of some high profile atheists, those who don’t believe in God are the most tolerant. Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:36:40 EDT Darren Sherkat 0ab1fba7-3ee9-4801-af6e-645365a58254 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/25/sam-harris-really-white-supremacist-part-two Last week, the blogger Hemant Mehta, who writes under the moniker “The Friendly Atheist,” told us to remove our heads from our asses and send Sam Harris an apology for an essay we published the previous week. The piece’s headline… Fri, 25 Mar 2016 02:46:53 EDT Andrew Aghapour, Michael Schulson 7ee550dc-ff6e-46d0-8a9a-0871a7004f7e https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/18/sam-harris-really-white-supremacist By profession, Sam Harris is a brawler. The New Atheist writer has ongoing feuds with Salon, AlterNet, The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald, and plenty of religious leaders. Whether Harris is a brawler because he loves to fight, or because conflict is… Fri, 18 Mar 2016 07:00:20 EDT Andrew Aghapour, Michael Schulson 79cf8171-68fe-4698-b6ca-cc6d5e79151d https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/15/how-not-defend-atheism David Silverman, the president of American Atheists and author of the new atheist polemic Fighting God, really doesn’t want you to think he’s a dick. Instead, he wants you to think he’s “That Pretty Good Guy Who Gets Called a… Fri, 15 Jan 2016 02:10:26 EST Vlad Chituc 18a4e5e5-daa6-48ec-94a8-76ba717e4a9a https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/15/why-scientists-should-be-agnostic-or-why-lawrence-krauss-still-windbag A few months ago, one of us (okay, Andrew), referred to the esteemed physicist and public intellectual Lawrence Krauss as “a windbag.” One of us (Michael) can attest that Andrew is among the kindest, most thoughtful people he knows. So… Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:43:15 EDT Andrew Aghapour, Michael Schulson 07a7ae03-e3b5-4181-8441-29464cd4d75e https://religiondispatches.org/2015/08/04/unbeknownst-richard-dawkins-feminist-revolution-islam-has-already-begun Despite the scientist’s impassioned tweeting that ship had already sailed. Tue, 04 Aug 2015 02:45:56 EDT Jerusha Tanner Lamptey b74be4b8-2d05-4780-8824-c377d8eb0b89 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/29/new-atheism-produces-another-curiously-uncurious-science-v-religion-book It takes chutzpah to argue that most living humans navigate reality incorrectly. But this particular form of chutzpah has become familiar. Fri, 29 May 2015 01:50:04 EDT Michael Schulson 394ea0f3-0f61-4e67-b490-ee8817141431 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/12/fighting-fire-ire-3-lessons-noam-chomskys-takedown-sam-harris The day before Mayweather fought Pacquiao, New Atheist Sam Harris released an email sparring match he’d had with famed linguist and leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky. In his bestselling book The End of Faith, Harris had accused Chomsky of drawing a… Tue, 12 May 2015 02:07:44 EDT Andrew Aghapour 3a9b9a25-345d-4989-b413-09199e80817b https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/04/churches-can-no-longer-hide-truth-daniel-dennett-new-transparency The famous New Atheist waxes optimistic on the future of religion. Mon, 04 May 2015 03:55:01 EDT Andrew Aghapour 80530dd0-49df-491b-879b-22b326e01123 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/02/19/religion-blame-violence-karen-armstrongs-flawed-case Just as I finished Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood, which is a very extended attack on the notion that “religion is inherently violent” or that religion and war go together like a horse and carriage, news broke of the latest… Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:23:46 EST Paul Harvey 6808fe1b-af82-44ff-9852-72959add2232 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/01/13/nones-are-here-and-have-been-over-100-years In recent posts about religious “nones,” or individuals without a religious affiliation, Mark Silk and Chris Stedman at the Religion News Service address the potential relationship between the emergence of the “New Atheists” and the rise of the “nones.” According… Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:38:50 EST Emily Mace 4fadd5d6-415a-413e-9e9c-3296a1c36fed https://religiondispatches.org/2014/10/23/karen-armstrong-caped-anti-anti-muslim-crusader When a friend recently saw me carrying around a galley of Karen Armstrong’s latest book Fields of Blood: A History of Religion and Violence to review, she was puzzled. “But you hate Karen Armstrong!” Hate may be too strong a… Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:58:57 EDT Brook Wilensky-Lanford fb8dc5ea-15d8-4a5e-90b6-967f3d8c84e7 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/10/23/maher-vs-aslan-religion-all-powerful-force-or-mere-window-dressing I have been following, with some glee, the verbal spankings that Bill Maher and other “New Atheists” have been getting from the likes of Ben Affleck and Reza Aslan. For years I have been not so much annoyed as dismayed… Thu, 23 Oct 2014 04:23:46 EDT Kate Blanchard 90ba161b-5b70-42e5-b874-0d6b0b449a02 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/06/03/my-kind-atheist Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to Give Love, Create Beauty and Find Peace by Frank Schaeffer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014 Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave… Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:35:52 EDT Peter Laarman 0da6429b-4875-448d-83bf-cea5b95a22ff https://religiondispatches.org/2013/10/31/richard-dawkins-new-agnostic The typically strident atheist reveals a softer side. Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:48:02 EDT Michael Schulson b8e6625b-1f89-4b3d-b1e7-9ed1fb608199 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/09/17/bill-nye-gets-religulous-bill-maher America’s science teacher throws religion under the bus. Tue, 17 Sep 2013 04:09:16 EDT Michael Schulson b7a8b846-f422-4614-95e4-7e099a419f09 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/05/30/if-apes-could-talk-atheists The famed primatologist’s latest book is a conversation about the common ground among atheists and bonobos, both of whom make it clear that religion has, lamentably and unjustifiably, been given credit for human morality. Thu, 30 May 2013 05:34:27 EDT Beatrice Marovich c9bdd0f2-21b7-4588-94e3-7e2cbbeca945 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/05/18/racial-politics-atheism The absence of historical and sociological context for atheist politics, and its disconnection from social justice activism, will keep it in the lily-white one-percent column. Sat, 18 May 2013 03:25:29 EDT Sikivu Hutchinson 90167c97-09dc-44f2-9a2b-bf59978a6108 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/04/09/atheist-islamophobia-again Dogmatism by any other name. Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:39:19 EDT Kate Blanchard 9fa2b43b-437a-4ab7-a2e1-a5a4f5323eac https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/03/did-dalai-lama-just-call-end-religion The Dalai Lama recommends a radical new approach: a religionless religion, stripped of myth, superstition, and narrow dogmatism, and focused on the practical work of transforming human behavior. Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:47:32 EST Richard Schiffman bf756017-2d2a-423c-b3ed-33058e4c4ff9 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/09/20/atheist-schism “Atheism+” formed to address social justice problems in the atheist community, but it may have to reckon with religion. Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:28:13 EDT Katie Toth c16eca59-e304-48a1-a4b5-244f1f0043c3