Hemant Mehta is the founder and editor of FriendlyAtheist.com, a YouTube creator, and podcast co-host. He is a former National Board Certified math teacher in the suburbs of Chicago. He has appeared on CNN and FOX News and served on the board of directors for Foundation Beyond Belief and the Secular Student Alliance. He has written multiple books, including I Sold My Soul on eBay and The Young Atheist's Survival Guide. He also edited the book Queer Disbelief.
A woman named Brittani wrote a poem called “What God Needs” for her Creative Writing class at a college in Paducah, Kentucky. It’s a piece that clearly has an atheist bent, referring to “A daughter with lymphoma” and “An ethics class, maybe three.” Her boyfriend Aaron had a copy of it lying in his car where anyone could see it… and did I mention this was in Kentucky? When he woke up yesterday morning, his window was smashed in, a brick was in the car, and someone had scribbled a nasty message on his copy of Brittani’s poem. Read more
If a Catholic priest from Arizona tells people how to vote on the Church’s website, should their tax exemption be challenged? Pastor John Bonavitacola, who heads up Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, made his views explicitly clear in a blog post this week, in which he suggested a preference for Donald Trump (“The Ego”) over Hillary Clinton (“Lady MacBeth”): Read more
There’s this absurd mindset in conservative Christian circles that neutrality with regards to religion is somehow anti-religious. If people in positions of power aren’t preaching Christianity left and right, there’s anti-Christian bias afoot. The concept of a pluralistic society where people of different beliefs can live and work together means nothing to them. Case in point: Creationist Ken Ham on Twitter this morning desperately trying to condemn public schools: Read more