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.
This weekend, I’m off to the Kansas City Regional Atheist Meeting. It’s a brief visit, but I’m excited to talk about what campus atheist groups are up to. I’m also curious to find out how many people are attending because of the Kansas City Atheist Coalition’s billboard, which has gotten a lot of great coverage. The segment below focuses on the effectiveness of both atheist and Christian billboards in the KC area: Read more
Everyone give a big Internet high-five to Ernest Perce V (Pennsylvania State Director of American Atheists) and Carl Silverman (PA Nonbelievers)! They’ve been attending school board and city council meetings in Greencastle-Antrim in Pennsylvania trying to convince the them to drop the Lord’s Prayer, a 50-year-old tradition in the district. When you watch the videos and media coverage, it looks like it’s the two of them versus the world. Turns out that’s all you need: Brian Hissong, [Greencastle-Antrim School District… Read more
This is Joshua Horn in 2010, when he was president of Arizona State University’s Secular Free Thought Society: This is Horn now, recalling what happened a couple of months after that video was taped: “The best way I can explain it is it wasn’t just perceiving something or experiencing something, it was experiencing some particular thing in a whole new way of experiencing it,” Horn says. “And it was the fact that it was a new way that was strange,… Read more
This is Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA): This is the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, which Broun sits on. And this is Rep. Broun telling people at Liberty Baptist Church a couple of weeks ago that evolution, embryology, and the Big Bang are “lies straight from the pit of Hell”: God’s word is true. I’ve come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight… Read more