In our secular age, the persistence of providentialism speaks to a fundamental human need to find meaning in history’s arc. Davis’s journey exemplifies this need for coherence—a belief that, even in a ...

According to a recent report from statistician Ryan Burge, the belief in miracles has risen in recent years among the college-educated, the group most correlated with materialistic beliefs.

For example, abortion laws are a fight between religious beliefs. Judaism most favors supporting the mother’s physical and mental health. Other religions prioritize other factors, potentially ...

It is, for example, far more rational to believe in a Creator than to believe that everything came about by itself. Which brings me to secularism. The moral and logical absurdities the secular ...

It is, for example, ... "Who's more irrational -- the religious or the irreligious?" I provided a long list of absurd, and dangerous, beliefs held almost exclusively by secular people.

The examples provided illustrate that while secular principles exist within the legal framework, the influence of Islam is pervasive, and any attempt to define Malaysia’s politico-legal ...

Our Declaration of Independence and Constitution are the embodiments of Enlightenment philosophy and an embrace of secular Humanism. They guarantee religious freedom, but do not endorse religion.

Peter Harrison’s Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age accepts some of Gregory’s findings but pushes them in a new direction. Yes, he concedes, modern Western ...

People judge ideologies by their worldly success or failure because this world alone is all they have to offer. But religions have a built-in advantage: they are concerned with ultimate meaning in a ...

A sociologist of religion explains how atheist churches are helping people find meaning and community — serving many of the same purposes as religious churches.