An atheist, Eliza, over at Conversation at the Edge shares an interesting encounter attending a religious class offered by a local Lutheran church. Her writeup suggests that either she’ll be getting hilarious responses from the pastor, or they will just cancel the class altogether. I mean, really, who are these skeptics who dare to ask questions…! [tags]Conversation at the Edge, Lutheran, atheist, church[/tags] Read more
On CBS Evening News last night, in response to the Amish school shooting, Katie Couric’s FreeSpeech segment showcased a father who lost his son at Columbine. Brian Rohrbough spent the segment trying to answer his own question: Why did this happen? Here’s what he said: I’m saddened and shakened by the shooting at an Amish school today and last week’s school murders. When my son Dan was murdered on the sidewalk at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, I… Read more
Is there an atheist running for public office in Texas?! Is he qualified? Will his supposed atheism be used against him?! Yes. Yes it will. According to the Republican Party of Texas, Candidate for the Sixth Court of Appeals, Ben Franks, is reported to be a professed atheist and apparently believes the Bible is a “collection of myths.” During debate over a plank in the State Democrat Platform, members of the Platform Committee debated dropping “God” from a sentence on… Read more
