Before his death last week, writer Christopher Hitchens sat down for a final interview with fellow atheist Richard Dawkins for British publication New Statesman. Obviously, their skepticism about ...

Religion has once again become the “opiate of the people.” But this time, instead of seducing the proletariat into accepting its position in a capitalist society, it lulls atheists into believing that ...

Richard Dawkins, the preppy septuagenarian and professional atheist whose work in the field of evolutionary biology informs his godless worldview, has always been a prickly fellow. The British ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) Christopher Hitchens will be remembered as many things: an acerbic essayist, connoisseur of Scotch and cigarettes and roguish writer whose forceful pen was fueled by an imposing ...

Richard Dawkins is no stranger to controversy. The British evolutionary biologist has branched beyond the ivory tower with books and public pronouncements focusing largely on his belief that there is ...

Excerpted from "The Science Delusion: Asking the Big Questions in a a Culture of Easy Answers" While a scientist like Richard Dawkins might be forgiven for not having his philosophic/aesthetic house ...

In his now-famous debate with Tony Blair over religion, roughly a year before his untimely death, Christopher Hitchens decided to address what according to him were the major components of "the faith ...

“Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let ...

It’s surprising just how much media analysis, both mainstream and progressive, continues to take as given the notion that atheism can be defined and discussed solely by looking at the so-called “New ...