Unbelievers in religion who think science can save the world are possessed by a fantasy that's far more childish than any myth.

BBC: A Point of View: Can religion tell us more than science?

The adoption of Islam by the ruling elite sharpened the divide, with Muslim believers at the centre entitled to protection under sharia law and unbelievers on the periphery denied legal rights.

ECONOMIST: Sudan

Historians and social scientists have found quite a lot to say about why faith thrives in some places and periods but not in others why, for the first time in human history, there are now hundreds of millions of unbelievers, and why religion is little more than vestigial in countries like Denmark and Sweden.

NEWYORKER: It Ain��t Necessarily So