Joe talks about why he started his new blog: Although I am an atheist I am a bit fascinated by the idea of religion. It seems odd to me that adults walk around everyday actively believing this stuff. When I get the hankering I go to IIDB and read the “deconversion” stories. I find them infinitely interesting (maybe some day I will write up my own here.) But many atheist internet forums or blogs devolve into argument, insult, preaching. Reading… Read more
The nice part about speaking in different cities is that I get to meet some of the commenters from this site that I only know by screenname. For example, tonight, I got to meet mollishka and HappyNat! I also got to hang out afterwards with some wonderful campus atheists. Many thanks to Students For Freethought for putting the event together. The talk was a good time. I hope the audience enjoyed it. Now I’m exhausted. I’ll write more later… Read more
Clark Adams, the president of Internet Infidels and a good friend, committed suicide last night. The message has been spreading through the national organizations today… Anyone who has been to an atheist convention in the past few years most likely had a conversation with him or heard him give an interesting talk on “atheism in the media.” He was an expert in pop culture and was always excited to talk about what was going on in the atheist world. He… Read more
Jim Henderson spoke to a group of Christians and atheists Monday night. Oxymoronredundancyparadoxtrap has a nice writeup of the event. Here’s an excerpt: A young man talked about growing up in a really conservative baptist church, and how hard it was to get out of his head the thought that he, and/or others, would go to hell if they didn’t maintain a correct belief. He asked Jim how Jim would respond to someone saying he was going to burn in… Read more
We have a couple people posting their thoughts on I Sold My Soul on eBay. First, Greg over at Free Mind Joe. Greg is a non-religious person as well, but he gets what I was trying to do in the book and he feels like it succeeded: While “I Sold My Soul on eBay’s” publisher, Waterbrook Press, produces material for a religious audience (they are “an autonomous evangelical religious publishing division of Random House“) Hemant doesn’t tone down his atheist… Read more
