At a speaking engagement I did recently, a man came up to me and gave me photocopies of a couple op-ed pieces he had written for a local paper (with a sizable readership). I’m not sure what he wanted me to do with them exactly, as they had very little to do with atheism… anyway, they were well-written and all, but I was more intrigued by the short bios of him that were printed at the end of his pieces:… Read more
For many Christians, you’re in for one hell of a time when telling your family and friends your spouse is an atheist. It’s hard enough for atheists to come out to our own parents, but to tell the religious people in your life that you’re going to breed with a heathen, that’s gotta be rough. (And if any Christians on this site have ever had to do that, I’d *love* to hear the stories. I would ask atheists, too, but… Read more
Remember that Time magazine cover from a couple weeks ago? The one about teaching the Bible in public schools? Well, apparently Time felt that was a more important (and better selling) issue in America than the resurgence of terrorist organizations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Huffington Post’s Eat the Press sheds more light on this and gives us another recent example of Newsweek doing something similar. (via Registan.net) [tags]atheist, atheism, Time, magazine, cover, Bible, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Huffington Post, Eat The… Read more
