Atheism

Christopher Hitchens, the world’s most famously caustic atheist, is now dead.

Hitchens expected this moment, of course, but he anticipated, wrongly, a blackness, a going out of consciousness forever. Many Christians today are sadly remarking on what it is like for Christopher Hitchens to be now opening his eyes in hell.

We might be wrong. more >>

Open-air preacher Ray Comfort said he will purposefully begin evangelistic campaigns in areas of the U.S. where atheist organizations file or threaten lawsuits in their attempt to remove Christian references from public property.

After reading about the demand by the atheists group Freedom From Religion Foundation to have a nativity scene removed from a Texas courthouse lawn in Henderson County, the Living Waters ministry founder from Los Angeles said he began learning about the group’s other actions around the nation on its website.

In addition to asking for the removal of nativity scenes from places such as in front of city and county halls, the Madison, Wisc.-based FFRF has been active in attempting to remove crosses from government property. Christians argue that it is their constitutional right to express their faith in the public square. The claim by most atheists that religious expressions tied to the government are not allowed based on separation of church and state has been proven by some historians to be a false assumption. more >>

World famous atheist Christopher Hitchens died Thursday from pneumonia, a complication resulting from his stage IV esophageal cancer.

The 62-year-old essayist passed away at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston in the presence of friends, according to a statement released by Vanity Fair.

“There will never be another like Christopher,” Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair editor said in a statement, according to ABC. “A man of ferocious intellect who was as vibrant on the page as he was at the bar. Those who read him felt they knew him, and those who knew him were profoundly fortunate souls.” more >>

Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, two of the world’s most renowned atheists, sat down to talk about everything from God to politics in a special Christmas issue of Britain’s New Statesman.

Conducted before the Texas Freethought Convention earlier in October, where Hitchens was given the Freethinker of the Year award, the two friends met in private conversing about a variety of issues, resulting in a rare exclusive interview.

Hitchens currently suffers from stage IV esophageal cancer, of which he spoke about in detail recently on Vanity Fair, and seldom makes an appearance in public now. more >>

A Seattle-area atheist group says in its latest ad campaign that 25 percent of Washingtonians are atheists, but the study cited by the group for that statistic indicates there are probably far fewer than they say.

The Seattle Atheists began its campaign Monday by having ads posted on buses from the King County Metro Transit Division. There are four different versions of the ad, each with a different pictures in the background, but all of which say “1 in 4 is an atheist” and promote the campaign's website.

Each background picture features four individuals in different scenes, including one with women laughing together on a couch, one which shows a group of hikers, another which shows four individuals sitting on a park bench and still another with a family celebrating Christmas together. more >>

As atheists push to remove traditional Nativity scenes from public squares and advertise their own skeptic displays, one Christian apologist is pushing back, calling their efforts misguided and misleading.

“The skeptic groups behind these annual ‘campaigns for unbelief’ either don’t know their history or are twisting the facts intentionally,” Christian apologist and author Dr. Alex McFarland said in a statement Monday.

“It’s wrong that many people are being misled by these campaigns, especially during a time when so many are spiritually seeking,” McFarland said. “Further, the atheist’s doubt-inducing disclaimers do not pass the muster of honest historical investigation.” more >>