This is a guest post by Amanda Metskas, the Executive Director of Camp Quest. Hemant adds: I’m working together with Greta Christina, Jen McCreight, and JT Eberhard to raise more money for Camp Quest than PZ Myers! (It’s almost a fair fight.) Please donate via the ChipIn widget below and say you came from this site! You’ll be helping a fantastic organization while defeating a wicked, squid-loving, cracker-destroying evolutionist 🙂 The first team to raise $5,000 for CQ (or the… Read more
As someone who teaches high school math during the day and writes about religion at night, and as someone who has been a target of a conservative Christian group, I have a soft spot for other educators who pursue their other interests outside of work. Now, a high school English teacher in Snyder County, Pennsylvania is in trouble because parents found out what she does outside of work: She writes erotic novels. Parents said Judy Buranich has been an English… Read more
The Global Atheist Convention took place in Melbourne, Australia this past March and the talks are finally up online. I haven’t seen them yet, but you know you have nothing else going on this week 🙂 Richard Dawkins: PZ Myers: Taslima Nasrin: If there are any particular moments we should all watch, please leave the video name and timestamp in the comments! Read more
Between 1884 and 1910, Charles Chilton Moore created a freethought newspaper called “The Blue-grass Blade.” A mildly progressive paper in the beginning, the Blade quickly evolved into an outright freethinking pulpit with a strong emphasis on the separation of church and state. The Blade openly supported other controversial causes of the time as well, from women’s suffrage to free trade to “special National legislation to improve the condition, financial and educational, of Negroes and Indians,” while always remaining devoted to… Read more
