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.
Maybe the strangest story coming out of the primary season so far has been that evangelical Christians seem to have no problem voting for Donald Trump, a serial adulterer who doesn’t ask for forgiveness and clearly doesn’t know the Bible. For all we’ve been led to believe about the importance of religious labels and the culture wars, Trump is winning over evangelicals by being a xenophobic, insult-spewing jackass who offers zero substance and brings only bad ideas to the table. Cartoonist Nick Anderson of the Houston Chronicle nails it: Read more
We all know people who take pictures of their food to post on social media. But I had no idea those pictures caused cancer. According to Saudi Cleric Sa’d Al-Ateeq, here’s how that works: Women decorate their food for social media (something they never do for their families). The result is that people who see the pictures become envious. And then people get cancer. Can’t wait to see the peer-reviewed paper for that one… Read more
Earlier this month, we learned of the discovery of gravitational waves, something that confirmed one of Albert Einstein’s longstanding predictions. It was a testament to the cleverness of the scientists who went about detecting those waves and could result in a Nobel Prize in the future. So leave it to a Fox News Channel guest to explain why the gravitational waves confirm God’s existence. Dr. Jeff Zweerink from Reasons to Believe, an Old-Earth Creationist ministry, explained it all: Read more