According to the Christian Broadcasting Network: Before the debate began, [Ray] Comfort was pleasantly surprised by his challengers’ parents. “The mother of one of the atheists we debated [Kelly] contacted me. She said ‘I am a Christian. I watch your television program twice a week, and I am earnestly praying for you guys, and thank you for befriending my son,'” said Comfort. “The female atheist – the other one who was debating us – her mother is a Christian,” added… Read more
I got an odd “press release” email yesterday. Why it was emailed to me, I don’t know. But whoever wrote it needs grammar lessons: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: EXPLOROLOGIST LIMITED, a British company filed suit today, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, against BRIAN SAPIENT, individually and doing business as the Rational Response Squad, for copyright infringement under the United Kingdom’s copyright law. EXPLOROLOGIST LIMITED is represented by Philadelphia lawyer, Alan L. Frank, Esq. of Alan… Read more
Goosing the Antithesis tells of the email that Ray Comfort sent to his mailing list regarding the Nightline debate. If you’ve seen the (admitted one-sided) preview video from the Rational Response Squad, you saw that Comfort and Kirk Cameron did not come off looking too well. Maybe that was just the RRS’ video, though? Judging from Comfort’s email, though, it seems like we’ll just see more of the same… What did his email say? Just a quick note to let… Read more
Arthur, an Australian, comments on the National School Chaplaincy Programme which will support chaplains who help with students’ “spiritual and emotional wellbeing.” There are chaplains for just about every religious faith, and as it turns out, there are Humanist chaplains as well. Arthur then talks about a Humanist chaplain that’s been in the news quite a bit lately: Greg Epstein of Harvard University. He draws some information from an interview Greg did with Humanist Network News. He then writes the… Read more
While promoting his new book, God is Not Great, Chris Hitchens is all over the place. The Daily Show, C-SPAN, New York magazine. The list goes on. Here are two of the more interesting things he’s done the past couple weeks. First, there’s the debate with Al Sharpton. The question they’re debating is: “Is God Great?” Which doesn’t make much sense to me for an atheist to answer because the question itself is a moot point. (It’s like when Stephen… Read more
