Hector Avalos is a professor of religious studies at Iowa State University and former executive director of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion, a division of the Council for Secular Humanism. He specializes in biblical studies. His books include Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence; The End of Biblical Studies; and Se Puede Saber si Dios Existe? [Can […]

Dr. J. Anderson Thomson Jr. is a psychiatrist in Charlottesville, Va., and a trustee of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. He is interested in the new cognitive neuroscience of religious belief — why human minds generate, accept and spread religious ideas — and spoke on the subject at the American Atheists’ 2009 convention. He has also […]

Read a July 16, 2010, guest column about “evangelical atheists” on The Washington Post‘s On Faith blog. Reza Aslan is the author.

Written by Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens writes an Atheist manifesto, arguing that religion is responsible for much of the world’s trouble.

Edited by Russ Kick. Everything You Know About God Is Wrong is a collection of articles and essays illuminating and disproving the most common misconceptions about organized religion.

Written by Paul Cliteur. Cliteur presents secularism as a remedy to religious violence and explains how it enhances democracy.

Read coverage of the Egypt conflict at The Washington Post‘s “On Faith” blog.

Read a Jan. 27, 2011, story in The New York Times about the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on protests in Egypt.

Read a Jan. 28, 2011, essay, “Don’t Fear Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood,” by Bruce Riedel, a Middle East expert at the Brookings Institution.