[Here is another article  by Neil Parille:] Ayn Rand and her followers have a bee in their bonnet when it comes to religion. In particular, ...

Innate components of religion. Objectivism considers religion a mere execrescence of irrationality, a product of wrong premises misintregra...

Pareto and the Objectivist. G. Stolyarov, a “science fiction” writer strongly influenced by Rand, wrote a review in 2004 of Pareto’s The R...

Conclusion. In Reason in Religion , the naturalist philosopher George Santayana sought to show how religion could be the “embodiment of rea...

Abortion. Rand and her followers tend to be unapologetic defenders of abortion, including abortion right up to the moment of birth. Objecti...

Religion and the underclass. One of the most witty and clever critics of organized religion is Voltaire, the most popular intellectual of t...

As the ARCHNblog runs its lengthy series on Objectivism and religion, regular contributor Neil Parille asks the obvious question: The claim...

Christian morality versus Objectivist Morality. For the rational critic of religion, it is not belief in God and the afterlife that create ...

Evidence for religion. A widespread prejudice among the anti-religious is that no evidence exists for religious phenomena as miracles, God,...

Deism. In December of 2004, Anthony Flew, who for most of his career had championed atheism, announced his "conversion" to theism...

Agnosticism. Peikoff has this to say of agnosticism: [There is] a widespread approach to ideas which Objectivism repudiates altogether: ag...

Does belief in the relativity of truth lead to dishonesty? A fascinating article in the San Francisco Examiner looks into the differences ...

Peikoff’s arguments against God. Peikoff, in his book Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand , provides several arguments against the exis...

Religion and freedom. Peikoff, in his essay “ Religion Versus America ,” argues that religion is logically incompatible with freedom and in...

Aquinas and Rand. Peikoff, in his essay “ Religion Versus America ,” credits Thomas Aquinas, the great philosopher of Catholicism, for lead...

Did Christianity cause the Dark Ages? Peikoff, in his essay “ Religion Versus America ,” more or less claims that Christianity was responsi...