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.
I’ll admit, I tried to listen to this sermon and I got too bored to finish it. So I’ll just leave Rev. Craig Hagin of Rhema Bible Church in Oklahoma with a piece of advice: Think about what you name your sermons. Otherwise, you’re just giving people like me material. [Click headline for more…] Read more
Earlier this year, I was excited to announce that the Skeptics Annotated Bible — a Bible with annotations marking the contradictions, instances of rape, violence, absurdity, etc. — was finally being made into a print book: Now, Steve Wells has created an iPhone/iPad edition of his amazing work. You can see some of the screenshots from the app below: [Click headline for more…] Read more
KEYE-TV in Austin, Texas offered up this headline yesterday, noting that it was their most popular video at the time: Wow! “Shocking” atheist billboards! What did they say? “God is imaginary”? “Religion is child abuse”? “There is no heaven”? Nope. It said to atheists, “You’re not alone.” Talk about freaking out over nothing… [Click headline for more…] Read more
The video below, part of The Atheist Voice series, discusses five stories from the past week that left me shaking my head: We’d love to hear your thoughts on the project — more videos will be posted soon — and we’d also appreciate your suggestions as to which questions we ought to tackle next! Read more