CA It seems to me that there's plenty of people in the TED community who are atheists.

However, prejudice against atheists does exist in Western countries.

Atheists, agnostics, or members of Iran s Bahai community are not accepted.

He wishes to push fellow Atheists to speak out against discrimination of all kind, including religious groups.

That is the most important message for everyone, atheists included, to take from the Christian story of Christmas.

Richard Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science. A fiery, funny, powerful talk.

Importantly, those with a religious background are as clueless or incoherent as atheists.

Is religion necessary for morality? Many people consider it outrageous, even blasphemous, to deny the divine origin of morality.

Jamaat e Islami and its allies launched protests across country on February 22 against atheist bloggers in which 4 people were killed in clashes with police.

Where the atheist assault is often correct is in pinpointing the amount of harm frequently done in our world by such fundamentalists.

According to the constitutions of both Abkhazia and Georgia, the adherents of all religions (as well as atheists) have equal rights before the law.

If morality is God s word, atheists should judge these cases differently from religious people, and their responses should rely on different justifications.

Supporters of Jamaat e Islami have distributed leaflets around the country saying that the bloggers who initiated the Shahbag protests are blasphemous, and have even called for the death penalty for atheist bloggers .

In recent months, D Souza has made a point of debating prominent atheists, but he, too, struggled to find a convincing answer to the problem I outlined above.

The Pope s call for religious freedom around the world, including in the socialist countries, rubbed the atheistic Soviets and Orthodox Russians the wrong way.

For example, because atheists supposedly lack a moral compass, they should be guided by pure self interest and walk by the drowning child.

A second problem is that there are no moral principles that are shared by all religious people, regardless of their specific beliefs, but by no agnostics and atheists.

On the contrary, they'll demonstrate that atheists are often the kinds of people that could serve as decent role models for your children, the kinds of people an advertising agent could use to recommend a product, the kinds of people who are sitting in this room.