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.
A new lawsuit against Chicago’s Moody Bible Institute says that the non-profit is targeting elderly people in order to get their money when they die. While non-profits frequently ask older donors to include the group in their wills, the lawsuit claims that a Moody representative got 89-year-old Hazel Turner to sign over her entire estate even though she wasn’t of sound mind: Read more
A day after coming in dead last in the race for mayor of Toledo (Ohio), “prophetess” Opal Covey still insisted she had actually won the election. She said the same thing four previous times, claiming that all the votes had just been stolen from her. She knows this because God told her she would be Mayor, making that the only plausible explanation. She also warned of God’s wrath if that type of obvious voter fraud ever happened again. That’s why this post-election interview by Jimmy Coehrs is the best thing you’ll see all day: Read more
Over the weekend, the terrorist group responsible for killing Bangladeshi atheists (along with one victim’s book publisher) posted a “hit list” of 14 people on Facebook. Or, at least, that’s the story the media is reporting. The Facebook page was shut down and we don’t know if it was actually the “Ansarullah Bangla Team” as they claimed to be. Still, I doubt anyone on the list is sleeping very soundly. Read more
The November/December issue of American Girl magazine features an article about foster care and it includes this picture of a family that went through the process: The Conservative Christian group One Million Moms, which cares so little about honesty that its own name is a lie, is furious that gay parents were included in the piece. I guess they’re angry that the magazine photoshopped out the devil horns? Read more
