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.
Last night, Marco Rubio suspended his campaign after a disappointing showing in Florida. The one-time Republican “savior” has been knocked out of the race. And what was the ultimate reason he lost? Was it because he was robotic during debates? Was it because he attempted to compromise with Democrats on a controversial issue? Was it his lack of conservative credentials? Was it because he didn’t quite get in the gutter with Donald Trump? Nope. Rubio mentioned some of those things in his concession speech, but he knew who was really responsible for all this: Read more
What sort of violent environment has Donald Trump created on the campaign trail? Watch this video — it has much more footage than you’ll see on cable news networks — and realize that this is the candidate that Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Kasich, and damn near every “G”OP senator up for re-election this November has promised to support this November. This is the best candidate Republicans have to offer for the very top of their ticket. Let’s hope it affects down all the way down the line. Read more
If you believe God created this planet, shouldn’t you do everything in your power to protect it? You would think so, but law professor Jay Wexler finds that the connection between religion and the environment is very weak in his new book When God Isn’t Green: A World-Wide Journey to Places Where Religious Practice and Environmentalism Collide (Beacon Press, 2016): In the excerpt below, Wexler discusses how two time-honored Hindu rituals create more problems than they solve: Read more