In a famous but misunderstood quotation, Marx wrote: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless worl...

A Freedom of Thought report , published by the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) criticises Scotland for the religiously pri...

From the August 1985 issue of the Socialist Standard Orange Myths It is Sunday 7 July. In Portadown this morning a riot took place a...

A severely mentally ill British pensioner sentenced to death in Pakistan after being found guilty of breaching the country’s blasphemy laws...

Up to half the Catholic churches across swathes of Scotland face the prospect of closure as another diocese warns of a crisis of clergy ...

Myanmar's Muslim minority, demonised and persecuted for decades, is facing a fresh wave of violence amid media silence. Rohingya Muslim...

A global poll on religion and atheism has found that 59 percent of the people in the world think of themselves as religious and 13 percent ...

The Church of Scotland denies any special privilege for the Jewish people in the land of Israel. In fact it went further and declared "...

Women in one of the West closest allies are still banned from driving cars or travelling alone but it is good to note that the British dema...

It is 200 years since the birth of David Livingstone, perhaps the most famous of missionaries. One biography describes David Livingstone ...

The only reasonable position to adopt towards any religion is one of unbelief. For secular humanists, criticism of religion is a process ...

Readers of Socialist Courier may find this article by Jeff Schweitzer on religion of interest. The human brain manages to make sense of a c...

The latest census reveals that in the UK respondents with no religion was up 10 points to 25%. A detailed survey in 2012 revealed that reli...

The quest for the supernatural does not stem from an excessive imagination but from a limited one constrained by years of exploitation ...

  "The religious reflex of the real world can, in any case, only then finally vanish, when the practical relations of every-day life...

Religion divides the universe into spiritual and physical realms and all religions offer their adherents relief from their earthly probl...

46 parades of up to 8,000 Orangemen will march through Glasgow's city centre today with a number of them converging on Cathedral Squa...

Thousands of American school students in Louisiana attend private religious schools that teach from a fundamentalist christian curriculum...

 “Cathy cats eat the rats, Proddy dogs eat the frogs” As part of the Queen's 60th Jubilee the Protestant, pro-monarchist Orange Ord...

Over 18,000 and possibly as many as 30,000 Presbyterian Covenanters gave their lives for their beliefs during the seventeenth century. We...