From The Millions, what ever happened to the New Atheism? We all know what we think secularism means but is the idea really so simple, and what is the good that it aims for? A review of The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now by George Levine (and more). Since there is nothing useful about the God hypothesis, we can happily discard it; physicist Mano Singham makes the scientific case for atheism. Earlier this year, Andrew Zak Williams asked public figures why they believe in God; now it’s the turn of the atheists — from A C Grayling to P Z Myers — to explain why they don’t. A review of The Good Book: A Secular Bible by A.C. Grayling. As fundamentalism gets stronger, post-religious liberalism offers a naive and sentimental creed. A review of Reasonable Atheism: A Moral Case for Respectful Disbelief by Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse. Going Godless: Does secularism make people more ethical? An excerpt from Rethinking Secularism by Charles Taylor. Shelley's necessity of atheism: Religions are merely unreal, not of this physical world, until they become the fires that burn heretics. Is this a godless age? No, say "post-secularist" academics, who argue that the world outside the liberal West is "furiously religious" — but such scholars overstate the number of believers and ignore support for secularism worldwide. The immorality of the Christian religion: An excerpt from A Voice of Reason in an Unreasonable World: The Rise of Atheism on Planet Earth by Al Stefanelli and Michele Sheppard. A better form of atheism: An interview with Adam Kotsko, author of Politics of Redemption: The Social Logic of Salvation. A review of Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning by Nancy Pearcey.
