You may have heard about Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret, an Oprah-endorsed, even-Deepak-Chopra-looks-good-when-compared-to-this, self-help book. Elaine Friedman of Humanist Network News shares her take on this garbage here: The Secret claims you can manipulate the material world — the numbers in a lottery drawing, the actions of others, world events — through your thoughts and feelings. Did you get a promotion? You must have been thinking positive thoughts about your job prospects! Do you have cancer? You must have been thinking… Read more
Siamang brings to my attention that many of the 300,000,000 new George Washington dollar coins were incorrectly minted. Approximately 299,950,000 of them have “In God We Trust” written on the edge. (Ok, that’s not the story, but it would be a damn good headline, yes?) Yahoo says the 50,000 coins lacking the phrase have only been spotted in Philadelphia, but they are fetching close to $50 apiece on eBay. [tags]George Washington, dollar coins, atheist, atheism, In God We Trust, Yahoo,… Read more
Quick update on the story: Some people on this blog and others were wondering why the congressperson was coming out as a “nontheist” instead of an “atheist”… According to the Secular Coalition for America’s lobbyist, Lori Lipman Brown: His staffers say he does not identify as an “atheist” So we can lay that to rest. It doesn’t give us any clue as to what the congressperson does identify with, but it’s not atheism. [tags]atheist, atheism, nontheist, Secular Coalition for America,… Read more
Outside my door this afternoon was a box. I wasn’t expecting any packages, but I read the “from” address… it was from WaterBrook Press. And I got all excited. Grabbed some scissors. Opened it up. It was a box of books. 24 copies of I Sold My Soul on eBay. I hadn’t seen the manuscript since December. When I had it in my hands then, it was just pages printed off a computer. There were still some typos that needed… Read more
Next Monday, March 12, the Secular Coalition for America will be making history when they announce the first openly nontheistic member of Congress! Read more information here. Just to reiterate: Congress. Not a local mayor. Or dogcatcher. Someone’s also getting the $1,000 prize… [tags]atheist, atheism, congress, Secular Coalition for America, Congress[/tags] Read more
