Criticism of religion - Topics

Popular atheist bestsellers about religion and how scholars responded to them Why agnosticism gets criticized from both belief and unbelief Why calling a practice superstition has been aimed at folk religion and at rivals alike Is criticism of religion different from criticism of religious people What Marx meant by calling religion the opium of the people Missionary work and colonial administration were entangled in ways churches still debate After an abuse scandal how do members describe still belonging to the institution? Why do insiders say comparative work flattens their own tradition? How the Satanic Verses affair became a flashpoint in criticising Islam Why the new atheist debates were as much about manners as about arguments What studies actually show about religion and critical thinking in schools Missionary schools taught literacy and pushed local languages out of the classroom What the four horsemen of New Atheism argued and where they split Short-term mission trips are popular and heavily criticized for what they leave behind Steelmanning an opponent's religious position instead of attacking a strawman How apostate memoirs shape the public critique of religion The burden of proof problem when a believer and an atheist debate the existence of God The Gish gallop and other tactics that derail debates about religion Does the evidence support the claim that religion causes most wars Reading a transcript of a religion debate critically and spotting loaded questions What Feuerbach's projection argument claimed and how theologians answered it How critics connect religion to patriarchy and how defenders answer What critics mean when they call religious upbringing indoctrination Presuppositional versus evidential approaches in Christian apologetics debates Why the charge that religion is a business gets made and what it leaves out Why "thoughts and prayers" became a phrase people now say with irony Must pluralism tolerate movements that reject pluralism Nietzsche's charge that Christian morality is a slave morality How the problem of evil is turned into an argument against God's existence