Atheism

Atheism, in its broadest sense, is characterized by an absence of belief in the existence of gods, thus contrasting with theism. This definition includes both those who assert that there are no gods and those who have no beliefs at all regarding the existence of gods. However, narrower definitions often only qualify the former as atheism, the latter falling under the more general term nontheism.

External links

Web sites

• Associations
• Atheist Alliance International
• American Atheists
• Freedom From Religion Foundation
• Atheist Foundation of Australia
• The National Secular Society (UK)
• The Brights
• Web communities
• Atheist Parents Group
• BookTalk.org - the freethinker's book discussion community
• Church of Reality
• Freethinkers (NoBeliefs.com)
• Positive Atheism
• The Secular Web
• Internet radios
• Atheist Network (Internet Radio)
• The Infidel Guy Radio Show
• Freethought Radio - Internet Radio Station
• Miscellaneous
• About.com — Agnosticism/Atheism
• God-At-Work.com - The Absurdity of God
• Ebon Musings: The Atheism Pages
• ExChristian.net — Encouraging Ex-Christians
• Links related to atheism by Atheists of Silicon Valley
• Political and Atheist Thought
• Camp Quest: A Secular Summer Camp for Children
• Darwin Bedford, Atheist Messiah and Spiritual Reality Therapist
• religioustolerance.org

Articles

• History of
• A Historical Outline of Modern Religious Criticism in Western Civilization - History of atheistic thought going back to the 1500s
• Definitions
• AllRefer atheism article - brief discussion of polemical usage
• "Atheism and Agnosticism" by John Smart for Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Defence
• The End of Faith
• Atheism defended
• Atheism: The Capital Man
• Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right — the source of the famous " the opiate of the masses", by Karl Marx
• Lecture on Atheism by Erkki Hartikainen in The Finnish Society for Natural Philosophy, 2003
• The Philosophy of Atheism by Emma Goldman (Mother Earth, 1916)
• Why Atheism?
• Criticism
• Catholic Encyclopedia: "atheism"
• The Twilight of Atheism by Alister McGrath, Christianity Today, March 2005.
• Theism, Atheism, and Rationality by Alvin Plantinga
• Intellectual Sophistication and Basic Belief in God by Alvin Plantinga
• Statistics
• Atheism: Contemporary Rates and Patterns atheism worldwide, by Phil Zuckerman