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.
At Foundation Beyond Belief, we want more people to join our Light the Night teams to raise $1,000,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. YouTuber Aron Ra and the FBB’s Dr. Zachary Moore made the following video to promote it. If nothing else, watch from the 1:45 mark. Zach makes a powerful plea for why you should get involved: Please join a team, start a team, or donate some money to the cause! Read more
Last week, I recorded an episode of The Malcontent’s Gambit podcast and we talked about the importance of the Internet to atheism, the Atheism+ “controversy,” Jainism, and plenty more. The episode’s finally up so give it a listen 🙂 Many thanks to host Alan Litchfield for the fun conversation. I also recorded a podcast with Carl at Post Rapture Looting and that’s available as well (iTunes link here). … Subscribe and listen! Read more
At a campaign stop today, Mitt Romney made sure everyone knew he was the candidate for the Religious Right. With Pat Robertson behind him, Romney explained how he would never do the things… that Obama has never done either… “That pledge says ‘under God.’ I will not take ‘God’ out of the name of our platform. I will not take God off our coins, and I will not take God out of my heart. We’re a nation bestowed by God.”… Read more
Thing I did not know: Brandon Flowers, the lead singer of The Killers, is Mormon. Thing I did know: Richard Dawkins is not. It takes a while to get going, but watch Dawkins deliver the smackdown to Flowers on the Norwegian-Swedish talk show “Skavlan,” around the 7:07 mark in the first video: (Thanks to MegaZeus Thor for the link!) Read more