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.
The other day, CNN published an article about how fairy tales might be older than we think. While they grew in popularity in the 1800s, they may have actually spread thousands of years earlier (but never written down). But reader Daryl noticed an interesting teaser for the story on CNN’s front page: Read more
Darrell Trigg is the Presidential candidate for the Christian Party — a party that I’m pretty sure has a total membership of one — and his platform is a mish-mash of right-wing talking points. He wants to eradicate separation of church and state, bring mandatory prayer back to public schools, stop any legal recognition of homosexuality, increase the drinking age to 25, and ban nudity and bad language on television. And then you get to the part about how he would protect marriage: Read more
Oklahoma State Senator Josh Brecheen has been trying since 2010 to push Creationism into the state’s public schools, and his latest attempt, SB 1322, hides its true intentions by calling for the creation of the “Oklahoma Science Education Act.” It’s a Science Education Act that would miseducate students about science. Here’s what the bill, which was introduced yesterday, says: Read more
You should always be skeptical when a godly “miracle” gets caught on camera. Sometimes, people are just misinterpreting what they’re seeing; sometimes, people are just being deceived. The latest viral video in this genre apparently catches a man who’s about to stab a priest at the Pentecostal IPUC Bosa church in Bogota, Colombia. But just as he gets up to do the deed, he falls to the floor in convulsions as if God is stopping him. You can see the video below; the relevant portion begins at the 4:18 mark: Read more
