Christians have found a way to ruin The 40-Year-Old Virgin… with a movie called The Waiting Game. Instead of the main character ruining all his opportunities to have sex growing up, like Steve Carell’s character did, this one has chosen to wait until he’s married. And his love interest in played by Kirk Cameron’s sister (a.k.a. D.J. Tanner from “Full House”)… Runs in the family, I guess. As a couple commenters on YouTube point out, the trailer makes it seem… Read more
The latest episode of The Non Prophets podcast includes really great interviews (MP3) with Damon Fowler (2:45 mark) and Jessica Ahlquist (29:35 mark). I don’t listen to many atheist podcasts, but I listened to this one the whole way through and was thankful I did. If you do nothing else, check out Jessica’s segment and keep in the back of your mind that she’s only a high school sophomore. She’s a natural when it comes to public speaking. It’s encouraging… Read more
The Congressional Budget Office just released a report about the “Options for Changing the Tax Treatment of Charitable Giving” (PDF). (Bored already? Give it a second…) Here’s one of the takeaways from the report, as reported at Christianity Today: … proposed changes to the tax code could reduce charitable contributions. However, the CBO does not expect religious organizations to be affected because religious donors are less sensitive to the tax benefits of contributions. Instead, it is the charities favored by… Read more
This is a guest post by Jamie Bernstein. Jamie is a graduate student in public policy at the University of Chicago as well as the Vice-President of the Women Thinking Free Foundation. She has previously written about anti-vaxers here and here. … You can (and should) read Part One of Jamie’s story at Skepchick before reading Part Two below. … At this point Ken and I needed a break. As we returned from our trip to Starbucks, we decided to… Read more
Americans United for Separation of Church and State has filed a lawsuit against Medina Valley Independent School District in Castroville, Texas because they have every intention to say a prayer during a June 4th graduation ceremony. This comes after a more polite letter was ignored by district officials: Americans United filed the lawsuit on behalf of Christa and Danny Schultz, who have two children in the district, including a son who is scheduled to graduate this year. Members of the… Read more
