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 more than a decade now, the Beaumont Independent School District’s Taylor Career and Technology Center in Texas — which has the worst website you’ve seen in a long time — has offered an Adult Cosmetology class. It caters to a lot of single moms, according to instructor Cequada Clark, and she was excited for the new school year. But she recently found out the class was canceled by Principal Thomas Amons. Was it because of budget cuts? A bad… Read more
Earlier today, Dr Pepper posted this amusing ad on its Facebook page: It’s cute and very scientifically inaccurate 🙂 But unlike some of the other recent clever ads aiming to make a political point, Dr Pepper’s promoters were clearly just having some fun. Nearly two thousand comments later, you would think this has become the next battle in the culture wars: Are you for or against Dr Pepper? (Even more entertaining: Chick-fil-A sells the drink. CONTROVERSY!) Admittedly, looking through the… Read more
At the recent Ascent of Atheism Conference in Denver, Colorado, Seth Andrews (The Thinking Atheist) interviewed a few attendees about why they left their faith. While their responses aren’t necessarily unique, they obviously had a long way to go to leave their faith. It’s uplifting to know they broke free to the other side. Hell, it might resemble your own story: Read more
Exorcisms are so popular in Poland that Roman Catholic priests have created a monthly magazine devoted to “chasing out the devil”: “The rise in the number or exorcists from four to more than 120 over the course of 15 years in Poland is telling,” Father Aleksander Posacki, a professor of philosophy, theology and leading demonologist and exorcist told reporters in Warsaw at the Monday launch of the Egzorcysta monthly. … “If people can make money out of it, naturally it… Read more