It’s a bit last-minute, but I’ll be leading a discussion with student leaders during the 2011 Northwest Freethought Conference in Portland, OR this Saturday afternoon! I’ll consider myself an appetizer to PZ Myers’ main course. (He’s delivering the keynote that night.) If you’re attending the sold-out conference, you should know I love root beer floats. And I *really* want to visit that Powell’s bookstore everyone always tells me about… Read more
Can atheists really participate in “interfaith” work? It’s been a touchy subject lately, and I’m not convinced we can. No doubt people from different backgrounds can work together to advance common goals, and President Obama alluded to this late last week with a new proposal: The White House is launching the President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, an initiative inviting institutions of higher education to commit to a year of interfaith cooperation and community service programming on campus. This… Read more
You all asked for a reminder, so here it is: Today begins A Week! Show others that you’re an atheist and proud of it. Start some conversations with people who may not know what the OUT Campaign symbol is all about! A Week is not about being disrespectful to religion or people who have religious views, it’s about quietly showing that there are more people than may be [realized] who are ‘Good without God’ and who don’t need religion to… Read more
***Update***: Commenters are right to point out that the celebrities are not necessarily atheists, but their quotations certainly resonate with atheists. … These aren’t the latest atheist billboards, but they sure as hell should be. George Clooney, Natalie Portman, Frank Sinatra, and Jon Stewart look even more fantastic when surrounded by their godless words: You can see the rest of the collection here. (Designed by Truth-Saves) Read more
