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 couple of weeks ago, we learned the city of Piedmont, Alabama was having a Christmas parade with the theme “Let’s Keep Christ in Christmas”: Once the Freedom From Religion Foundation wrote a letter warning the city of the constitutional problems with that, the city changed the theme to the more innocuous “City of Piedmont Christmas Parade.” The parade took place Thursday night and it seemed to go over well. But the narratives surrounding it are so far off… Read more
A few days ago, Pastor Steven Anderson made some of his nastiest remarks to date, saying that … If you executed the homos like God recommends, you wouldn’t have all this AIDS running rampant. The folks at Planting Peace — you know them because of their rainbow-painted house across the street from Westboro Baptist Church — are now using Anderson’s remarks as a fundraiser: Read more