Good without God
Religious ideas, gently fact-checked.
Essays, explainers and the occasional raised eyebrow, from the people behind The Atheist Jew: a Facebook community of more than 100,000 people, most of whom grew up with religion and never stopped asking questions.
The Atheist Counter
1,900,000,000
people worldwide have no religion
145 million people identify specifically as atheists (mid-2025 estimate). World Christian Database, via Zurlo, Johnson & Crossing, International Bulletin of Mission Research (2025)
10% of people surveyed in 42 countries call themselves “convinced atheists”. Gallup International, end-of-year survey 2024 (published July 2025)
Latest articles
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The weirdest rules we were raised with in church
No dancing, no Dungeons & Dragons, no Harry Potter, and definitely no questions. A tour of the strangest rules many of us…
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Things you were taught in Sunday school that aren’t actually in the Bible
Three wise men, Eve’s apple, Jonah’s whale and ‘God helps those who help themselves’. We went back to the text to check…
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Should government meetings open with a prayer?
What the law says in the US, England and Canada about opening council and legislative meetings with prayer, and the strongest arguments…
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