Julia Sweeney once played androgynous Pat on Saturday Night Live. You remember Pat. Pat was hilarious. Now, Julia is touring with her one-woman show called Letting Go of God, a monologue about how she went from being a Catholic to being an atheist. The first part of it can be seen here (from the recent TED conference): I’ve said this during a number of speeches in the past year, but this is one of the best examples of Positive Atheism… Read more
It’ll be better to do a few separate posts on certain topics discussed at the American Atheists convention since there is so much to cover. But for now, a couple quotations (which you’re not allowed to quote me on) and pictures! Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists, during her introduction speech: … has anyone come out of the closet and had a bad experience? [Many hands go up.] The atheism closet, I mean. After her speech, the emcee introduced the… Read more
My local paper in the Chicagoland south suburbs, the Daily Southtown, did an article on bloggers in our area. Among those blogs mentioned are one that “features pieces about knitting,” one that “details the cooking exploits of… [a] stay-at-home father of two,” and this other one…: Hemant Mehta, a 23-year-old Sandburg High School graduate known as the “eBay atheist,” wrote a blog (and a book) about spending a year of Sundays in churches after selling his soul on eBay. The… Read more
