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.
If you want to join the Air Cadet Organisation (in the UK), you will have to say this oath at your graduation ceremony: I, Cadet [Full Name], hereby solemnly promise on my honour to serve my Unit loyally and to be faithful to my obligations as a member of the Air Training Corps. I further promise to be a good citizen and to do my duty to God and the Queen, my Country and my Flag. However. thanks to a campaign from the British Humanist Association and the United Kingdom Armed Forces Humanist Association, there will soon be another option: Read more
From earlier today, Mark Driscoll remains as classy as ever, pretending the President isn’t a Christian. Praying for our president, who today will place his hand on a Bible he does not believe to take an oath to a God he likely does not know.— Mark Driscoll (@PastorMark) January 21, 2013 I can’t tell if that’s more or less demeaning than flat-out calling him a Muslim… Read more
Answers in Genesis founder Ken Ham is on a mission to make sure children never get brainwashed. (I know, I know… stay with me here.) Instead of shutting his organization down — something that would actually help his cause — he’s going after 19-year-old Zack Kopplin, the student who’s a thorn in the side of Louisiana Creationists: Read more