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.
Yesterday, I posted about a Dan Savage book review in today’s New York Times that criticized the Marin Foundation. Andrew Marin’s goal is to bridge the gap between the LGBT and Christian communities, but along the way, he strategically chooses not to answer questions like “Do you think homosexuality is a sin?” “Do you think that gays and lesbians are born that way?” and “Can an LGBT person ‘change’?” While I don’t care about the answer to the first one, the other two are non-negotiable to me. There are right and wrong answers to those questions and to not answer them so as to straddle the fence is a cop-out. [Click headline for more…] Read more
The video below features Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Brian Greene, Ira Flatow, Neal Stephenson, Tracy Day, and Lawrence Krauss — all on the same stage! (Do I need to say any more than that to get you to watch it?!) If any parts stand out to you, please leave them in the comments! Read more
Historian Dr. Richard Carrier recently spoke to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Atheists, Agnostics, and Skeptics group about why he believes Jesus did not exist: I haven’t had a chance to watch the video, but please leave any notable timestamps/summaries in the comments! (Thanks to Phillip for the link!) Read more
I said yesterday that the “New Atheists” helped revive a movement that has since grown in both size and scope. Here’s even more evidence of that: The number of books being written about atheism are coming out of the fire hose at full blast. And far from being more “arguments against faith,” they’re covering a wider range of material than ever before. Kimberly Winston wrote about the trend in Publishers Weekly: [Click headline for more…] Read more