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, I posted about how the American Family Association was urging parents to keep their kids at home on “Mix It Up at Lunch” Day, an event sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center that encourages students to break from their cliques for a day and eat lunch with different people. The goal is to meet new people and make new friends whom you might not otherwise have known. It’s a laudable goal. The problem, according to the AFA, was that this was really just a thinly-veiled attempt by the SPLC to promote homosexuality. Read more
I don’t mention it very often, but there’s a very active Friendly Atheist Forum (with well over 4,000 members) that allows readers to have much more in-depth conversations on the issues raised on this site — as well as a bunch of other interesting topics, too. I consider it an extension of this site and the moderators do an incredible job of keeping things useful, on track, and substantive. If you’re not already part of the discussion, it’s easy to… Read more
Student filmmakers Ethan Sigmon and Sam West are working on a documentary that portrays atheists as the good people we are — not the evil ones we’re made out to be. Their film is called “We Are Not Monsters” and they’re trying to raise the money they need to make this project great. A clip called “Revelry” is below. The more personal stories begin a little after the 2:00 mark: We’re both broke college students. We’ve financed this entire project… Read more