“Atheists challenge the religious right”
Read a Jan. 4, 2007, Christian Science Monitor story on the growing political efforts of secularists.
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“A Mission to Convert”
Read a Jan. 11, 2007, essay by H. Allen Orr in The New York Review of Books critiquing the latest round of books on atheism.
“Reason and Pop Atheism”
Read this Jan. 22, 2007, essay posted on the blog of the conservative religious journal First Things by a Jesuit priest, the Rev. Edward T. Oakes.
“The New Intolerance”
Read a Christianity Today editorial from Jan. 25, 2007, that notes how critical mainstream media reviews have been of many recent books promoting atheism.
“Once-obscure atheist group takes on Bush’s faith-based initiative at Supreme Court”
Read a Feb 22, 2007, Associated Press profile (posted at the San Diego Union Tribune) of Annie Laurie Gaylor, head of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which leads in challenging government policies on religious issues.
“God’s Dupes”
Read a March 15, 2007, Los Angeles Times op-ed by Sam Harris in which he argues that moderate believers give merit to religious fanatics.
“The Dawkins Confusion: Naturalism ad absurdum”
Read this review of Dawkins’ The God Delusion by Alvin Plantinga in the March/April 2007 Books & Culture.
“Sam Harris, the New Atheists, and anti-Muslim animus”
This article by Glenn Greenwald in The Guardian examines whether atheism is being used as a rouse to promote Islamophobia and militarism in the US.
“Has Militant Atheism Become a Religion?”
This March 24, 2013, piece in Salon is excerpted from The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans de Waal and discusses the growing divide between religious and non-religious people.