David G. McAfee is a journalist and author of No Sacred Cows: Investigating Myths, Cults, and the Supernatural, as well as the founder of the Party of Reason and Progress, a group that advocates for evidence-based policymaking. McAfee, who writes about science, skepticism, and faith for his No Sacred Cows blog on Patheos, attended University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated with bachelor’s degrees in English and Religious Studies with an emphasis on Christianity and Mediterranean religions.
A California woman was arrested for attempted homicide yesterday after she stripped her 11-year-old daughter naked, shoved sand in her eyes and mouth, choked her, and tried to “remove the Demons from the child.” The little girl would have died if it weren’t for the intervention of a local man, who told me in an interview that he believes “God sent” him to save her. Read more
