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.
Here’s a thought: Don’t be a pedophile. Here’s another thought: If you are one, don’t tell the cops “the Bible did not set limits on the age between two partners.” (Actually, wait, I take that last one back. Go ahead and say it because it makes it that much easier to lock you up.) Timothy Morgan Butler said the statement to cops in Layton, Utah last year after he was arrested: Read more
Yesterday afternoon, you could have gone to YouTube and seen a video posted by First Baptist Villa Rica (in Georgia) in which a pastor showed up at Villa Rica High School right before football practice to conduct a mass baptism that included players and a coach. The caption read: “We had the privilege of baptizing a bunch of football players and a coach on the field of Villa Rica High School! We did this right before practice! Take a look and see how God is STILL in our schools!” Someone must have tipped them off to how unbelievably illegal this all was. By last night, the video was gone. (Though you can catch glimpses on this news segment.) Read more
I post this article once a month. Thanks for your support! … Over the past couple of years, what began as a personal blog has turned into a hub with several contributors and multiple posts per day. As always, I’d like to continue expanding the reach of this site. That entails bringing on additional contributors with different voices, including more guest posts from people who can offer interesting and different perspectives, creating more YouTube videos, and making the podcasts sound more professional. In order to facilitate all of this, I’ve created a page at Patreon. (You can now see on that page a list of things I’ve been able to do thanks to your contributions.) Read more
