From The New York Times's The Stone, Gary Gutting on philosophy and faith and Dawkins' atheism. What's it like to be an atheist in Colorado Springs, home of the religious right? Closer look at rift between humanists reveals deeper divisions: Paul Kurtz, founder of the Center for Inquiry, resigned in a feud with its chief executive over the direction of the center and the future of humanism itself. Matthew Nisbet on the atheist netroots and what it means to live without religion. A review of The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture by Darrel W. Ray. Alastair Hannay on considering religion post-secularisation. Should you tell your four-year-old you believe we are all alone in a godless universe? Catie Wilkins on her atheist upbringing. Instead of embarking on the project of "saving God" by replacing him with the natural and human shaped world, it is perhaps time to acknowledge that it is we ourselves that need saving — just replacing God with Nature isn't enough. The Bright side: Is atheism going mainstream? We need to give up our belief in a supernatural Creator Agent God and live with the fully natural creativity of the universe as a newly evolved sense of God, awesome, and invited to stewardship — then we have one Magesterium, not two and the split between reason and faith is healed. What’s an atheist to think when thousands of believers (including prominent rabbis and priests) are praying for his survival and salvation — while others believe his cancer was divinely inspired, and hope that he burns in hell? Don’t silence Christian Voice — they’re a brilliant advertisement for atheism. A review of Spectres of False Divinity: Hume's Moral Atheism by Thomas Holden.
