Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dimitris Xygalatas, CC BY Why do people distrust atheists? A study we conducted, led by psychologist Will Gervais, found ...

Religion forms a moral foundation for billions of people throughout the world. In a 2019 survey, 44% of Americans – along with 45% of people across 34 nations – said that belief in God is necessary ...

Each year that we celebrate Independence Day, we seem to be a less religious nation than the year before. This is an ominous trend, and we would do well to heed the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, who ...

John D. Ragan asks: As the nation turns 250, are we staying true to the founders' vision and teaching our children the ...

Morality concerns what is right and wrong in the form of obligations toward others. These include both legal obligations as well as obligations of virtue, such as kindness, honesty, and respect, which ...

With his usual verve, Rodney Stark takes aim at the functionalist model of religion (“Why Gods Should Matter in Social Science,” The Review, June 6). Stark’s research methods are first-rate, and his ...

Daily, we hear or read about shootings, drug overdoses, murder, theft, sex offenses, violence and other crimes. Some of the suggested solutions to these evils include gun-control laws, security ...

In this week’s JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with author Robert Wright, who discussed his vision of how various cultures’ notions of God have evolved throughout history. Wright suggested that, at their ...

In an interesting piece about the independence of morality and religion, my fellow Psychology Today blogger Gad Saad rightly reports that many religious people believe that morality is an example of ...