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Atheism

May 2026

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    No, Richard Dawkins. AI is not conscious

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Dawkins appears to have gone from atheist to AI-theist: perhaps he doesn’t view AI as God, but he certainly seems to see it as God-like

April 2026

  • Man and woman talking

    Maybe humanists and Christians are not so different

    Letters: Readers respond to a letter by Andrew Copson in which he reflects on Gen Z’s search for meaning

January 2026

  • Kate Adie, pictured on 3 April 2025.

    Brief letters
    A proud northerner unfairly maligned

    Brief letters: Misleading accent | Relatively northern | Unc’s not new | Swede v turnip | Atheist blessings

December 2025

  • ‘When my agent suggested TV presenting I found the idea absolutely, outrageously awful’ … Janet Ellis.

    ‘I’ve never been scared of saying what I think’: Janet Ellis on godlessness, grief and life beyond Blue Peter

    The broadcaster becomes president of Humanists UK in the new year. She talks about juggling TV work with single motherhood, losing her husband, and why she’d rather have specialised in acting

November 2025

  • Making Sense of it main image

    Making sense of it
    I don’t believe in God but, as a trauma survivor, I’m learning to forgive myself

    Jackie Bailey
    In the context of spirituality, trauma is a hand grenade. But it can lead to deeper understandings of the world

August 2025

  • A Thames Water work van stand at Mogden Sewage Treatment Works

    Brief letters
    Ofwat – what are they thinking of?

    Letters: A drought of ideas | Double-yolkers | Our beautiful launderettes | Good Friday dispute | Potato planting

January 2025

  • Reverend Don Cupitt

    The Rev Don Cupitt obituary

    Controversial academic and theologian best known for his 1984 television series The Sea of Faith

March 2024

  • Keir Starmer visits a Hindu temple in north London in 2021

    The Guardian view on Labour doing God: faith communities can play a part in national renewal

    Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer is not a believer, but he is right to recognise the value of religious organisations’ commitment to the common good

May 2023

  • Hell with damned being devoured by a devil, detail from The Last Judgment, 1431, by Fra Angelico

    Hell, yes: younger Britons more likely to believe in damnation, study finds

    Belief in afterlife higher among gen Z and millennials than in baby boomers, despite being less religious generally

April 2023

  • FEB 2023 - LONDON : David Baddiel is an English comedian, presenter, screenwriter, and author.. ( Photography by Graeme Robertson)

    The God Desire by David Baddiel review – not quite losing my religion

    The comedian’s attempt to reconcile his lack of faith with his Jewish identity places him in an intriguing position in an often polarised debate

March 2023

  • David Baddiel

    David Baddiel: ‘Football fills a God-shaped hole’

    Ahead of a new book about our need for faith, the ‘militant atheist’ discusses oversharing, identity – and why he’s distancing himself from Richard Dawkins

April 2022

  • A map of Africa is seen tattooed on the ankle of a woman wearing stiletto heels

    From the Ranting Atheist to I Like Girls: the best African podcasts

    Covering topics from queer Africans to a blogger’s disappearance, female hosts and producers from across the continent pick their top shows

February 2022

  • Can the Buddha and Jesus be reconciled?

    Notes and queries
    Can you be a Buddhist as well as a Christian?

    The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

January 2022

  • Torsten Bell

    Hidden gems from the world of research
    Ending religion lessons in schools leads to overall decline in belief but not morals

    Torsten Bell
    Data taken from across Germany reveals that as mandated RE was abolished, atheism increased as a collective choice

June 2021

  • Thomas Bayes

    The Guardian view on the god of science: a divine but rational disagreement

    Editorial: A key maths tool during the pandemic came about because of an 18th-century debate about Christianity. The lesson we can draw today is that moral philosophy matters

April 2021

  • Richard Dawkins … “attempts at clarification inadequate” says AHA.

    Richard Dawkins loses ‘humanist of the year’ title over trans comments

  • Adult Education students in a pottery/sculpture class with tutor at the Mary Ward Centre in London

    You don’t need a faith to find the meaning of life

March 2021

  • A disused church in Port Glasgow

    The Guardian view on 'post-Christian' Britain: a spiritual enigma

    Editorial: The majority of us do not belong to any religion. But for most, atheism is not an option either
  • Zoe Williams

    For divorced atheist remainers like me, this census was a minefield

    Zoe Williams
    Filling in the form should have been a piece of cake. But domestic, cultural and political quandaries sent me into a tailspin, writes Zoe Williams
  • Census

    Less than half of Britons expected to tick ‘Christian’ in UK census

    Snapshot of Britain will see many reject church as immoral or irrelevant, academics predict
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