Although most professed atheists reject religion in general, they usually have a specific religion in mind. The sociologist Peter Berger argues that today’s atheism has. . .

New atheists like Richard Dawkins are not only religiously illiterate; they’re also ignorant of their forebears, for whom the “death of God” was a rightly fearsome prospect.   

Can secularists lead moral lives? Of course. What about an entire nation? Of course not.  

Many are the substitutes for God invented by non-believers; they have turned out to be no substitutes at all. But can the West recover its. . .

To understand why religion will never die, one need only look at the unrelenting efforts of Communist regimes to criminalize and crush faith; they failed.

In sharp contrast to today’s unbelievers, Friedrich Nietzsche understood that the “death of God” meant the death of morality.

The fate of Christians and Jews under Communism should serve as a lesson to contemporary atheists for whom persecution is only another word for religion.

Some justify atheism on the grounds that we no longer need God to explain natural phenomena. “This is pretty lame.” (Interview by Gary Gutting.) 

There is more than meets the eye to Leo Strauss’s claim that philosophers, himself included, cannot be religious believers.

Scientists and philosophers of mind are tossing the human-centered worldview into the trash; it is incumbent on Judaism and Christianity to confront them.

The use of religious terminology, rituals, and theological concepts by nominally atheist groups suggests that they are not quite as distant from traditional theism as they claim.

Serious theists and atheists, though they frequently debate the reality of God, hardly ever use the word “God” in the same way.

Pew’s survey of American Jews raises more questions about the state of American Jewry than it answers.