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.
Annaka Harris has written what looks to be a wonderful children’s book that atheist parents (and all parents, really) will appreciate: I Wonder is about a little girl named Eva who takes a walk with her mother and encounters a range of mysteries — from gravity, to life cycles, to the vastness of the universe. She learns to talk about how it feels to not know something, and she learns that it’s okay to say “I don’t know.” Eva discovers… Read more
S.E. Cupp, one of the hosts of MSNBC’s “The Cycle,” is a self-loathing atheist. Though she oftens touts how she’s Godless and Republican, she repeatedly makes assertions that make you question her atheism. Among her many on-air statements: “I envy religious people… I envy the faithful. I would like to be a person of faith, but I’m not there yet…” … “Speaking of atheists, I find atheists — militant atheists — to be among the most intolerant people that I’ve… Read more
The Illinois Family Institute is back and they’re going after their arch-nemeses: English teachers. Because, as we all know, English departments are stacked with evil liberals who must be stopped at all costs. Here’s what you need to know. The teacher in question teaches an elective “film as lit” class for seniors. In essence, instead of reading and analyzing novels for message, technique, structure, etc., they do it with movies. Ideally, you need to select movies that have a lot… Read more
I stopped watching The Newsroom about halfway into the season… so I missed this gem on how we’re not a “Christian nation”: Will McAvoy: During Tea Party rallys and in campaign speeches, we’ve been told that America was founded as a Christian nation and if the founding fathers were here today, they’d tell us so. Here’s John Adams in the Treaty of Tripoli: “As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”… Read more
Pastor Terry Jones, a Christian pastor who specializes in making everyone in the world hate him, recently announced yesterday that today was International Judge Muhammad Day: In the video, Jones refers to “Hussein Obama,” calls Muhammad “Mo,” says Muhammad was a pedophile… the list goes on. Jones was also promoting a movie with a misnomer of a title — Innocence of Muslims — that compares Muhammad to a goat and Muslims to “child-lovers.” Anyway, there are now riots taking place… Read more