Author: Eric Gorski

Source: ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9145342

The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: "Ask an Atheist."

Whenever a student gets within a few feet, Anastasia Bodnar waves and smiles, trying to make a good first impression before eyes drift down to a word many Americans rank down there with "socialist."

Bodnar is the happy face of atheism at Iowa State University. Once a week at this...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8366225.stm

The group behind a controversial atheist bus-poster campaign is urging parents not to label their children with their own religious faith.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has launched a series of billboard advertisements in capital cities.

The posters are part of a campaign to challenge state-funded faith schools.

But a representative of the...

Author: Nick Hytrek

Source: Sioux City Journal

http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/lifestyles/leisure/article_9914761e-ce50-11de-98cf-001cc4c03286.html

Many of us have undoubtedly heard someone urging folks to tone down the commercialism of the holiday season and "keep Christ in Christmas."

But what if you're not among those who follow Jesus Christ? What if you believe in another god or no god at...

Author: Janet I. Tu

Source: The Seattle Times

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010195429_atheist04m.html

When some 600 atheists, agnostics and other nonreligious folks gather in Seattle starting Friday for a Freedom From Religion Foundation convention, there will be an emphatically nonprayer breakfast.

Not to mention hundreds of provocative bus ads, including one with Santa saying: "Yes,...

Author: Neil Johnson

Source: Tampa Bay Online

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/03/na-atheists-take-message-on-road/

Motorists along one of Lakeland's major thoroughfares are being greeted with a billboard asking a provocative question: "Don't believe in God?"

Then there's the answer: "You are not alone."

The billboard went up Sunday on eastbound Memorial Boulevard nearMartin Luther King...

Author: Sarah Sweeney

Source: The Harvard Gazette

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/10/rebel-with-a-cause/

Chaplain Greg Epstein of the Harvard Humanist Chaplaincy isn’t your typical clergy member. For one thing, he doesn’t believe in God. For another, he used to be a rock star.

Epstein was a college student studying Buddhism in China when he joined a band. After recording a few albums...

Author: David Abel

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/10/28/in_subway_ads_atheist_group_reaches_out_to_hubs_faithless/

Beside ads beckoning believers to explore Islam, attend services at the Boston Chinese Ev angelical Church, or...

Author: Evan Buxbaum

Source: CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/21/new.york.subway.ads/index.html

Some New Yorkers may want to reconsider exclaiming "Thank God" when arriving at their destination subway station beginning Monday.

Or at least that's what a coalition of eight atheist organizations are hoping, having purchased a month-long campaign that will place their posters in a dozen busy subway stations throughout Manhattan....

Author: Patsy McGarry

Source: The Irish Times

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1020/1224257057606.html

Ireland's atheists feel discriminated against and left out of conversations with religious people, as well from the public sphere, according to new all-island faith surveys.

They have also found that 67 per cent of lay Irish people view ecumenism positively, but some complained it was too “...

Author: Daniel Burke

Source: Religion News Service

http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/atheism_30_finds_a_little_more_room_for_belief1/

Bruce Sheiman doesn’t believe in God, but he does believe in religion. Setting aside the question of whether God exists, it’s clear that the benefits of faith far outweigh its costs, he argues in his new book, “An Atheist Defends Religion:...

Author: Oralandar Brand-Williams

Source: The Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090928/LIFESTYLE04/909280383/1041/LIFESTYLE04/Area-religious-leaders-question-billboards

A series of controversial billboards recently erected throughout Metro Detroit is drawing curious stares and criticism from the faith community.

The seven billboards read "Imagine No Religion" or...

Author: Angela Abbamonte

Source: Religion News Service/Pew Forum Religion News

http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=18769

The number of American adults who do not identify with a particular religion is growing and may comprise more than 20 percent of the population in two decades, according to a new study.

Conducted by researchers at Trinity College, the study, entitled "American Nones: The Profile of the No Religion Population,"...

Author: Roger Alford

Source: The State Journal

Wire Service: AP

Author: Avi Selk

Source: The Dallas Morning News

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/083109dnmetatheistcamp.3cc7357.html

"Mommy," 5-year-old Joseph recently asked Amie Parsons, "if Jesus was a carpenter and was real, and God isn't real, does that mean Jesus built the schools and buildings?"

Parsons, who describes herself as nonreligious, was delighted by her son's...

Author: Jaweed Kaleem

Source: The Miami Herald

http://www.miamiherald.com/367/story/1165325.html

There's nothing unusual about churches advertising Sunday services, but South Florida atheists are turning that idea on its head: Why not promote the belief that there is no God?

"Most people are under the impression that atheists lack morals and ethics. We are trying to dispel that myth,'' said Ken Loukinen, founder of the 400-member Florida...