The cover of November’s Wired magazine featured “The New Atheists.” Obviously, there were going to be many letters in response… but were the letters angry? Were all the Wired editors told they’re going to hell? Nope. They got very little brimstone. And more response than ever before. They talk about the reactions here. They also posted every received letter here. Some random comments from the page: Since I’m a Christian and a life member of Mensa I was surprised to… Read more
The latest Humanist Network News Podcast is all about the sex. It features an interview with Certified Sex Therapist Dr. Marty Klein, an interview with Jeff Swenson (author of the comic Freethunk), and best-of clips from the first year of the podcast. But wait. There’s more! Don’t miss the (PG-13 explicit) radio play (at the 27:32 mark) featuring a Deist woman having orgasms while trying to avoid saying “Oh God!” One replacement: “Oh… Red Queen Hypothesis!” I promise you that… Read more
In light of the Ted Haggard situation, the question sometimes comes up from the Religious Right: Can a gay person become straight? For some reason, some people think degayification is possible. Tanya Erzen, author of Straight to Jesus, spent time with the people at New Hope Ministry, a San Francisco-based ministry that helps Christian men who are “struggling with homosexuality.” According to this article from Salon, Erzen “made every effort to listen to and understand everyone at New Hope Ministry,… Read more
1st Lt. Wayne Adkins (196th MPAD) has resigned from the Ohio Army National Guard. His reason is not that he refuses to fight. It’s because he’s tired of the discrimination he has to face as an atheist. You can read his open resignation letter here. Some excerpts follow: On July 18th, 2006 Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum, Chief of the National Guard Bureau, lumped atheists and agnostics together with bigots and in a paraphrase of an old untrue negative stereotype… Read more
Daniel Morgan, the president of the University of Florida Atheist, Agnostic and Freethinking Student Association (which is a Secular Student Alliance affiliate), appeared on Hannity & Colmes last night to provide the atheist perspective on yet another Ten Commandments issue. (A monument was placed outside a courthouse by citizens in Dixie County, Florida) A video of the appearance, as well as Daniel’s take on it all, is at his website. To recap: FoxNews needed two sides for this story. They… Read more
