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 Greene County (Missouri) Sheriff’s Department is one of several around the country that’s slapping “In God We Trust” stickers on all police cars. Like all the other Christian leaders who lie about the real reason they’re doing this, Sheriff Jim Arnott says this has nothing whatsoever to do with Jesus: Read more
We know God’s Not Dead 2, the sequel to the awful-but-lucrative Christian film, will be premiering next year. It will star Melissa Joan Hart as a high school teacher who quotes the Bible in class and gets sued by a student who thinks “separation of church and state” is a good idea. I’m sure you can fill in the rest of the details from there. (Spoiler: It involves a court battle.) Yesterday, Focus on the Family debuted the theme song of the film by the band Newsboys. The level of Persecution Complex in the lyrics is astounding: Read more
The last time she gave an interview, Kim Davis said she was good at her job and totally not a hypocrite. How’d she do last night against Megyn Kelly of Fox News Channel? As expected, Davis was still playing the persecution card. But the most telling moment may have been when Kelly (a lawyer herself) asked Davis how she’d respond to a hypothetical Catholic or Muslim in her shoes who also wanted a religious accommodation to deny a different kind of couple a marriage license. Davis responded by completely avoiding the question: Read more
Kaitlyn M. is a 19-year-old atheist who was recently kicked out of her Mormon parents’ home. She’s struggling to make ends meet and began a fundraiser to get some help. David Smalley of Dogma Debate spoke with her yesterday, and her story is one that I’m sure a lot of you (unfortunately) can relate to. Read more
On his radio show Monday, the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins explained that Dr. Ben Carson was right when he said Islam was inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution and that’s why Muslims couldn’t serve as President. Perkins went on to say Islam is more than just a religion (and his isn’t?): Read more
