I’m off to Portland tonight! Tomorrow, I’ll be discussing what successful campus atheist groups are doing with a group of student leaders at the 2011 Northwest Freethought Conference. And on Wednesday night, I’ll be in Baltimore speaking to the UMBC Secular Student Alliance. Those are my excuses if postings are minimal for the next week. Read more
I haven’t seen too many episodes of Cenk Uygur’s MSNBC show, but maybe I need to start watching. There are other media personalities who will call out Glenn Beck, but very few who do so on religious grounds: All you have to do is claim that God spoke to you and you can say or do just about anything. That goes for Beck, pastors, and everyday Christians. God is just used an excuse for saying whatever it is you’re already… Read more
Remember when American Atheists President Dave Silverman appeared on The O’Reilly Factor to discuss an atheist billboard…? The most memorable part of the interview was this exchange (at the 1:51 mark): O’Reilly: I’ll tell you why [religion’s] not a scam. In my opinion, all right? Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can explain why the tide goes in… Silverman: Tide goes in, tide goes out…? O’Reilly: Yeah, see, the water — the… Read more
This is a guest post by Alise Wright. Alise is a wife and mom. She loves knitting, playing keyboards in a cover band, eating soup, and writing at her blog. … I love to read and I particularly like to read things that are of interest to important people in my life. So when my husband came out to me as an atheist in late 2009, I went looking for something to read so I could better understand his views…. Read more
I just realized that emails sent to friendlyatheist@friendlyatheist.com over the past few weeks have not been getting to me. I think the problem has been fixed… but if you sent me a story tip or email or anything else recently, I probably didn’t receive it. I’m sorry for the inconvenience. I wasn’t purposely ignoring all of you. Please try again! Read more
