Sarah is an atheist on MySpace. She gets unwanted email all the time, but one deserved a response. She talks about it here. It makes you wonder if this guy was trolling MySpace for single girls or for atheists (which might even be creepier…). *** Shawn shares his views on why he did not choose to become an atheist. He only chose to examine his religious beliefs. [tags]MySpace, atheist, Christian, atheism[/tags] Read more
I had dinner with an acquaintance last night. This girl doesn’t know too much about my personal beliefs and my involvement with non-religious groups, but she does know I’m an atheist. She’s a Christian, though she defines that loosely and doesn’t believe in organized religion. Our conversation eventually came to what our respective beliefs are. This girl was telling me how she had met a guy who changed her life a few years earlier. They met by chance at a… Read more
Says this article. The statements attesting to the idea that Science actually helps Christianity were made after the premiere of the documentary “The Case for a Creator” (based on the book by Lee Strobel). The best line in the article: Over the last several decades, Christians have begun to emerge back into the intellectual public square. Right… In fact, MENSA meetings are now being held in church. Now, if the writer wanted to make her point, she would explain the… Read more
Blogger Cailin from California writes about an encounter she had with a door-to-door Evangelist. She represent atheists well by simply having a conversation and answering his questions honestly instead of being aggressive. And the Evangelist doesn’t seem to overstep his bounds, either– he respectfully stops pushing his views when he sees where she’s coming from. Nice work, Cailin! [tags]Cailin, atheist, evangelist, evangelism, Christian, Bible[/tags] Read more
In all the election results from last week, I didn’t hear much about the nine victories by members of the Indian-American community… until now. In Minnesota, Satveer Chaudhary sought re-election for his seat in the state Senate and won his third term to that post. Chaudhary is the first Asian-American elected to the Minnesota legislature, the youngest member of the state Senate, and presumably the only Hindu. He was running against Rae Hart Anderson, a Christian, teacher, and registered nurse…. Read more
