If you haven’t heard it yet, This American Life re-broadcast a story last week about Carlton Pearson, a pastor who was once rising in the evangelical ranks. Pearson is also responsible for introducing the Christian world to Pastor T.D. Jakes. So why was Pearson once rising as opposed to still rising? Because he stopped believing in hell. And then all hell broke loose. Because “when there’s no hell (as the logic goes), you don’t really need to believe in Jesus… Read more
What does an atheist gives thanks for on Thanksgiving? Rachel gives one example here. I’d love to hear what other atheists experienced over the weekend. Any controversies with the family? Let me know. *** Heather tells of her conversion. From agnostic to atheist. She also explains why. *** You’ve seen the video on YouTube. If you haven’t, see it here: Now, see the interview with the creator, Zachary Kroger. Read more
PZ Myers linked to a post I made on his site yesterday morning. All of a sudden, 2318918903 people decided to drop on by. Which was very cool. (Hi new people!) I found the website statistics particularly interesting. Below is the graph of the number of visitors from the past week. Guess which day the Pharyngula post appeared. A similar blogbump (only *much* larger in scale) happened a couple months ago when Fark linked to an article from Humanist Network… Read more
For anyone who is interested in this stuff… there are a few new additions to the site. 1) On the sidebar to your right, there is now a list of the most popular posts. 2) For any post, you can now subscribe to the comments. This means if you’d like to follow what people are saying for a particular post, you can now do so, with or without posting something yourself. 3) If you need to contact me, there is… Read more
After being invited to Parkview Christian Church to have a discussion about atheism and Christianity with the pastor, on stage, for all three weekend services, I wrote about a pamphlet used by the Church. It was called “Creationism for my Child’s Teacher” and it was riddled with mistakes. Pastor Tim Harlow even responded to the comments you all made. Pastor Tim (a man I respect and like for several reasons… not including his views against Evolution) stressed that he wrote… Read more
