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.
There’s an old meme floating around in which a pastor explains why he quit attending sports events… a veiled reference to the excuses he hears from people who no longer want to attend church: Seth Andrews doesn’t like that list at all, especially the last item on it, as if allowing children to think for themselves is a bad idea. So he made his own version of the entire meme: Read more
At Monday’s Oak Ridge City Council meeting in Tennessee, Aleta Ledendecker of the Rationalists of East Tennessee became the first atheist to deliver an invocation address there. But not every council member was there to hear it, and Ledendecker wasn’t even able to deliver the full speech because the Mayor cut her off early. Read more
Christian Preacher Cindy Jacobs tells a lot of tales. There’s the story of how she helped a woman grow three inches instantaneously, and the one where she turned metal into bone, and the one where she blamed the death of blackbirds on the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Basically, she’ll tell any lie to further the word of God. And her followers just accept it all because I guess they haven’t gotten to the part of the Bible with all those pesky Commandments. The latest lie involves how she commanded the clouds to go away during a video shoot for Pat Robertson’s The 700 Club (11:45). Read more