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.
Because Christian Right leader Bryan Fischer knows soooooo much about women’s health: As Brian Tashman at Right Wing Watch points out, … rape does not make pregnancy either impossible or unlikely, and there are other types of rape than “forcible rape,” such as statutory rape or cases where consent isn’t offered or is impossible. Even Akin has apologized for what he said (though, if he has his way, he still won’t give women control over their own bodies). But I… Read more
I wasn’t able to go to TAM 10 this past summer, but Dr. Pamela Gay’s talk was one of the ones everyone seemed to be talking about on Twitter. After watching it, it’s east to see why: There are two separate parts worth listening to (though the whole thing is pretty good): At 11:40, she talks about Internet trolls and the abundance of people who love to complain without offering anything of substance in turn. That should be a new… Read more
At the beginning of school last year, our teachers’ cafeteria was closed… so if we wanted lunch, we had to get it from the same place the students did. That meant longer lines during an already-short lunch period… (not to mention 3289423 awkward interactions with students). But I wouldn’t mind that much if we took a page from a school in Louisiana and found a way to speed up the whole lunch-buying process: Moss Bluff Elementary School in Louisiana is… Read more
In New Zealand, the Associate Education Minister John Banks just made a frightening revelation: He’s a Creationist. … he believes the Genesis account of the start of life on Earth. According to the Bible, God made the world in six days, with Adam and Eve being his last act of creation. … “That’s what I believe, but I’m not going to impose my beliefs on other people, especially in this post-Christian society that we live in, especially in these lamentable… Read more
This is an article by Marco Rosaire Rossi. It appears in the September/October 2012 issue of The Humanist. You can read other articles from this issue and subscribe to the magazine by going to their website. Note: All URLs and images below are my own additions, because I thought they’d be helpful. … The American Atheists’ annual convention held this past March had some surprising attendees. Between the usual suspects in the exhibit area selling secular literature and soliciting memberships… Read more