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.

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.

Listen to a CNN Radio story from March 28, 2013, about the 50th anniversary of the American Atheists.

The National Spiritualist Association of Churches maintains a state-by-state list of Spiritualist churches across the United States.

Robert Todd Carroll is the author of The Skeptics Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions (John Wiley & Sons, 2003) and maintains a website of the same name. He is a retired philosophy professor at Sacramento City College in California.

Read a Beliefnet.com interview with Ursula Goodenough, a poet, biology professor and “religious naturalist” who has written a book called The Sacred Depths of Nature (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Since 1963, American Atheists has been the premier organization laboring for the civil liberties of atheists and the total, absolute separation of government and religion. It is based in New Jersey and has chapters and affiliated organizations around the country.

Herb Silverman is president emeritus of the Secular Coalition for America. He speaks and writes frequently on topics dealing with freethought and atheism.

John Haught, an emeritus professor of theology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., believes that spiritual experiences are connected to the brain processes and dependent on them but not reducible to them. He says it is possible to distinguish between the chemical basis of experiences and the experiences themselves. Life and mind cannot be reduced […]