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.
For years now, several groups around Raleigh, North Carolina have been giving food and clothing to the homeless in Moore Square. The media has been lumping them all together as “church groups” but one of them is a Humanist service group called Human Beans Together, who have been distributing goods there since January of 2012. A few weeks ago, the Raleigh Police Department told them they couldn’t hand out food in public space, so they all moved to the nearby Salvation Army’s parking lot… until the city took that space over, too. This past weekend, all that goodwill came to a sudden halt when the police shut them down: [Click headline for more…] Read more
Last week, at a back-to-school rally at Oral Roberts University, a bald eagle made an appearance. A very brief appearance. University officials hired World Bird Sanctuary, in Valley Park, Mo., [to] bring in a real bald eagle to raise the student’s excitement. The eagle, named Lewis, was supposed to fly from the top of the chapel down to its trainer on stage, but got disoriented… And this is what happened, amid chants of “U.S.A.” [Click headline for more…] Read more
Well, that was fast. Yesterday, American Atheists President Dave Silverman tweeted this: Terry Firma gave more details on what happened on this site earlier today. Today, Silverman posted his letter to appeal the decision on AA’s website. And just moments ago, he tweeted this: [Click headline for more…] Read more