https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to richard dawkins en https://religiondispatches.org/2022/01/31/do-stormy-daniels-beliefs-paranormal-make-her-unfit-testify-lawsuit-against-her-former Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who rose to prominence as a result of her former relationship with Donald Trump, is testifying against her former lawyer, Michael Avenatti, who’s on trial for allegedly stealing $300,000 from Daniels (the money came… Mon, 31 Jan 2022 05:04:29 EST Daniel Wise 4b0ad4d3-bed4-4b52-a98f-7d302ab73843 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/11/30/atheist-richard-dawkins-swings-anti-trans-right-grasp-broader-intellectual-relevance Yesterday, Richard Dawkins tweeted a request to his followers, asking them to sign on to a declaration by UK-based anti-transgender advocacy group the Women’s Human Rights Campaign (WHRC). Best known among anti-transgender circles for their proposed re-writing of the 1981… Tue, 30 Nov 2021 01:49:38 EST Heron Greenesmith ab207135-1da0-4de9-bca4-c4102b6fa5ff https://religiondispatches.org/2020/05/12/yes-it-can-be-hard-be-atheist-america-now-we-have-data Are the nonreligious a marginalized group in America? When I brought this question up to a friend who lives in New York the other day, he was skeptical. Practically everyone he knows is an atheist, he says, as if this… Tue, 12 May 2020 04:09:25 EDT Chrissy Stroop 4714f9ab-460b-4a33-8ef8-6f2d859118ec https://religiondispatches.org/2018/12/20/2018-wave-goodbye-another-year-religion From sexual abuse to white nationalism, a fake rabbi, atheists behaving badly, and politicized pastries, 2018 had little going for it on the religion front. Thu, 20 Dec 2018 01:14:57 EST Daniel Schultz 0d88d5a8-9a3f-4ca9-9a9f-0d9581df5fef https://religiondispatches.org/2018/09/11/atheists-miss-another-metoo-moment After a sexual assault scandal, American Atheists could have hired Mandisa Thomas, of the national Black Non-Believers organization, but instead chose yet another white man. Tue, 11 Sep 2018 04:03:06 EDT Sikivu Hutchinson 816c7adb-c3f7-41e7-acf8-ae817bf00134 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/02/20/atheists-color-transcend-opposition-religion-and-white-atheist-privilege-working-social I’m a black atheist who works in urban public schools of color that systematically funnel young people into juvenile jails and prisons. The school district I work in spends more on school police and paramilitary equipment than it does on… Tue, 20 Feb 2018 02:38:59 EST Sikivu Hutchinson 65120337-9163-4411-a860-3acee3542323 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/2016/10/14/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/2016/06/15/did-richard-dawkins-hand-creationists-their-next-school-strategy Since the 1990s the Discovery Institute, a conservative think-tank, has tried to make it easier to teach intelligent design in public schools. They have had some successes, and one big setback: in 2005, the Institute and its allies lost Kitzmiller… Wed, 15 Jun 2016 02:12:44 EDT Adam Shapiro 95d02996-b9a8-448c-8208-c84a323a909a https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/20/looking-islam-all-wrong-places-response-nabeel-qureshi Nabeel Qureshi made his debut into the evangelical anti-Muslim apologetics market with his conversion narrative Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, published in 2014. In the past, Qureshi has professed charity towards Muslims themselves even as he accuses his former religion of… Wed, 20 Apr 2016 06:00:12 EDT Jonathan Homrighausen, Elijah Reynolds 446c198b-3b4d-46e1-8ef6-8ffb07ea842d https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/04/whats-wrong-atheist-lent A few years ago, I gave up eggs and dairy for Lent. This wouldn’t have been a particularly weird thing to do were it not for the fact that I wasn’t raised Catholic—I was baptized in an Orthodox church—and also… Fri, 04 Mar 2016 11:43:28 EST Vlad Chituc 063f650b-4990-4b08-a6d7-67e25438a14c https://religiondispatches.org/2016/02/11/why-belief-primacy-language-leads-misunderstanding-richard-dawkins-islamophobia-and Like marijuana, affect theory seems to pop at parties. Thu, 11 Feb 2016 12:42:50 EST Andrew Aghapour, Michael Schulson 58846fe7-7504-4971-8088-711b5df210d0 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/2015/11/16/tweeting-isis-attacks-lesson-not-learning-lesson After Friday’s horrific attacks on Paris, France, leaving 129 dead, hundreds wounded, a nation traumatized, and a world shocked, we are of course asking: What do we do now? But, of course, we’ve been here before. We overthrew the Taliban… Mon, 16 Nov 2015 05:05:07 EST Haroon Moghul c9fb7e15-e20b-4747-bf81-3d6411b1106b 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/2015/07/16/white-supremacy-mental-illness-or-society-whats-blame-religious-violence This article is part of It’s Your Fault, The Cubit ’s series on blame in contemporary society. In this essay, RD associate editor Michael Schulson analyzes the patterns of blame that emerge in the aftermath of religious and ideological violence… Thu, 16 Jul 2015 04:16:31 EDT Michael Schulson 45eee1d1-63ce-4c30-b422-21ec0275d5c3 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/18/did-pope-francis-just-end-religion-and-science-conflict It’s unclear what kind of political impact Laudato si, the first encyclical of Francis’ papacy will have, but from a scholarly perspective it’s already doing something significant: scrambling one of the dominant paradigms for thinking about relationships between science and… Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:00:57 EDT Donovan Schaefer 39e7a303-bb6f-48a7-ac02-a5daf700d5cd https://religiondispatches.org/2015/03/16/introducing-cubit-rds-new-religion-science-portal Search the internet for “religion AND science,” and you’ll find plenty on creationism, Richard Dawkins, and the so-called “God spot” (where the brain seems to process religious experiences). You will also find heaps of commentary, most of which assumes either… Mon, 16 Mar 2015 02:02:34 EDT Andrew Aghapour, Michael Schulson 39d4d867-83c4-4e7a-9efc-18f5c0a18ee7 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/2014/12/25/not-review-would-you-baptise-extraterrestrial Asking how you reconcile faith and science is sort of like asking, ‘How do you reconcile being a scientist and a Detroit Lions fan?’ Thu, 25 Dec 2014 01:44:13 EST Nick Tabor 267610cc-65ae-4a77-a95a-6b735763619c 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/2014/01/14/defense-richard-dawkins-awe-full-scientist Rather than having fights online my hope is that his new memoir will bring out more of the Dawkins that so many came to respect and admire before he was made most famous for his atheism. Tue, 14 Jan 2014 02:11:47 EST Alana Massey 1391ec1f-99c7-4129-bb52-c3dcb344e3ed https://religiondispatches.org/2014/01/08/satanist-behind-10-commandments-challenge-sincere An interview with “Lucien Greaves” the mastermind behind the proposal for a Satanic monument on the grounds of the Oklahoma capital. Wed, 08 Jan 2014 05:00:06 EST Joseph Laycock 37fc7079-d127-4583-8027-3a3c72539f48