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 Atheists United chapter in San Luis Obispo, California has an “adopt a highway” sign marking a stretch of land that they regularly clean up. But that sign was vandalized by someone a few weeks ago: There’s not much you can do with that other than replace it and move on, and that’s what everyone did. And then, this week, they discovered that the same sign had been sawed off from its post and spray-painted. Read more
There must be something in the Catholic Church’s baptismal water that makes priests blame the victims in any given situation. There was Father Piero Corsi who said women who were raped or sexually abused “should search their consciences and ask: did we bring this on ourselves?” And Father Benedict Groeschel who described pedophile priests with this remark: “A lot of the cases, the youngster — 14, 16, 18 — is the seducer.” And Bishop Robert Cunningham who said “The boy is culpable” in discussing a victim of molestation. The latest example come from Italy, where Rev. Gino Flaim said pedophilia happens, in part, due to “children who seek affection.” Read more
