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.
In a new propaganda video from Answers in Genesis, the Creationist group explains the difference between “observational” and “historical” science, a false dichotomy that real scientists never use. How do we know this is a video about science? Because this is one of the images you see in it: Read more
Christians have a strange obsession with guns. They’ve found biblical justification to arm themselves to the teeth and think they have a God-given right to blow someone’s head off if the need arises. Hell, they’ll do gun giveaways in churches. Journeyman Pictures just posted a short documentary about “how religion and gun law intertwine in America”: Read more
Remember when the Orange County schools in Florida allowed an outside group to passively distribute Bibles to students? They left them on a table and students could pick one up if they wanted a copy. But the school board had to make a decision after atheists and representatives from the Satanic Temple requested the opportunity to hand out their own materials. Eventually, board members decided to stop all distributions of religious (or anti-religious) material. The same discussion is currently taking place in Bledsoe County, Tennessee. Superintendent Jennifer Terry put a halt to Bible distributions and now local Christians are flipping out: Read more