Surprised by Faith: My Moroccan Odyssey

By |2023-08-20T13:29:41-05:00August 20th, 2023|Categories: Atheism, Bradley J. Birzer, Catholicism, Christianity, Essential, Featured, Religion, Timeless Essays|

There I, a convinced atheist, stood alone in a sandy and windy world, devoid of water, trees, or anything that seemed to be alive. And I couldn’t help but wonder what madness had overcome me. The most fateful university holiday I ever experienced was way back in February 1988. Yes, during that magical and mystical [...]

The Tragedy of Blaise Pascal

By |2022-08-18T16:07:40-05:00August 18th, 2022|Categories: Atheism, Christianity, History, Love, Mark Malvasi, Timeless Essays|

During his final illness, Blaise Pascal often refused the care of his physician, saying: “Sickness is the natural state of Christians.” He believed that human beings had been created to suffer. Misery was the condition of life in this world. My uncle made book for a living. That is, he took money from those who [...]

The God of Philosophy or the God of Faith?

By |2021-08-29T09:13:58-05:00August 28th, 2021|Categories: Atheism, Christianity, Michael De Sapio, Religion, Senior Contributors|

Spinoza has appeared to build upon the edifice of the ancients and the medieval scholastics, but he has actually taken the floor out from under us, so that “God” and “man” no longer mean quite what they did. A wise man has written a book called God or Nothing—the title a profoundly pithy expression of [...]

The Invention of Science: The Telescope & the Book of Job

By |2020-04-04T14:12:16-05:00April 4th, 2020|Categories: Atheism, Books, Christianity, Culture, History, Modernity, Religion, Science|

The Invention of Science by David Wootton is a dense, thought-provoking, and encyclopedic account of the Scientific Revolution. The book is an intellectual history, focusing mainly on the mental paradigm shift that the Revolution brought to Western Civilization. How man thinks about the natural world post-Revolution is not the same as how man thought before it, [...]

The Divine Discontent of the Atheist Heart

By |2020-03-14T16:21:51-05:00March 14th, 2020|Categories: Atheism, Christianity, Culture, David Deavel, Religion, Senior Contributors|

Like all human beings, the atheist ones I’ve seen and known are always prattling on about justice and injustice. But atheists don’t seem to realize that there is such a category as “should” because there is a design for the world that we perceive. Atheists do not believe in God, but I confess that I [...]

On the Fear of Religion

By |2020-02-15T11:44:04-06:00February 15th, 2020|Categories: Atheism, Blaise Pascal, Christianity, Culture, Philosophy, Religion, Senior Contributors, Theology|

Blaise Pascal wrote that men hate religion and “are afraid it is true.” But can we agree with him? Some have made clear a hatred for it, but do they fear it? And what about the wider culture? Do people today, generally speaking, fear religion? The renowned physicist Stephen Hawking once heckled that the idea [...]

Is God Dead… or Is It Nietzsche?

By |2019-06-27T12:47:45-05:00August 10th, 2018|Categories: American Republic, Atheism, Christianity, Europe, Religion|

The world has been and will continue to be overwhelmingly traditionally religious, whatever intellectuals like Nietzsche might have expected to the contrary, thus confirming those philosophers who contend that all civilizations must be supported by such moral frameworks… San Diego State University recently announced what it called perhaps the largest ever study of American youth [...]

Imagine No Religion

By |2017-04-10T08:23:28-05:00February 11th, 2017|Categories: Atheism, Dwight Longenecker, Featured, Politics, Religion|

When there is no religion, the religion that exists in the vacuum—ideology—is the very worst sort of religion… After observing yet another protest march the other day I became interested in how similar to religion ideologies are. The ideology could be left wing or right wing, North, South, East or West wing. It matters not. [...]

Atheism: Disproved by Science?

By |2021-05-19T10:46:55-05:00September 9th, 2016|Categories: Atheism, Existence of God, George Stanciu, Science, St. John's College|

I, like you, was born in the Kali Yuga, the Dark Age of Hindu mythology, when all the great faiths of the world are on the wane. The secular faith in the Nation-State, in grand schemes to institute Paradise on Earth, and in placing transcendent hope in human institutions has been destroyed by history. No [...]

The Case for Jesus: The Evidence of the Gospels

By |2022-11-06T14:48:05-06:00April 10th, 2016|Categories: Atheism, Christianity, Dwight Longenecker|

In arguing the case for the divinity of Jesus, scholar Brant Pitre attacks the foundations of modern Biblical scholarship, challenging the late dating of the gospels and their subsequent anonymous authorship. Attending Bob Jones University made me skeptical of fundamentalists. Attending Oxford University made me skeptical of liberals. I came to question the Bob Jonesers’ [...]

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