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.
Bonya Ahmed, the wife of atheist author Dr. Avijit Roy, was by his side when terrorists attacked them. While her husband died, she managed to survive and has been an outspoken critic of the Bangladeshi government ever since. Now that one of Roy’s publishers has been murdered in a similar attack, Ahmed has issued a personal statement saying she has no hope in Bangladeshi government to do anything meaningful and wants them to stop paying lip service to those who have been killed if they’re not going to back it up with action: Read more
On Saturday, we learned that Faisal Arefin Dipon, a publisher of atheist Avijit Roy’s books, was murdered in Bangladesh. That made him the fifth person targeted by Muslim terrorists in the country this year. But hours before he was killed, three others were seriously injured in a separate attack, including writer Tareq Rahim. Monika Mistry, Rahim’s wife, lives in Canada and she is calling for her government to do something, anything, to help her husband before he’s a target once again: Read more
Should homeschooling Christian parents be allowed to withhold education from their children because they believe the Rapture is imminent? That’s a question the Texas Supreme Court will be deciding very soon. The case involves Laura and Michael McIntyre. In 2004, they removed all nine of their children from a private school in order to homeschool them. But Michael’s brother Tracy said he “never observed the children pursuing traditional schoolwork” when they were supposed to be learning. The reason? Tracy overhead one of the McIntyre children tell a cousin that they did not need to do schoolwork because they were going to be raptured. Read more
Maybe you’ve always wanted to read the Bible, except it’s really long and not very interesting, and you’d just prefer the abridged atheist version. That’s what C. B. Brooks MD has created with The Nonbeliever’s Guide to Bible Stories (Pitchstone Publishing, 2015): In the excerpt below, Brooks gives us a taste of the Book of Leviticus: Read more
