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.
Earlier today, the group Atheists Helping the Homeless based in Austin, Texas just held their 41st giveaway — over 100 people went through their line: Among the items they gave away: pre-packaged food, toilet paper, socks, soap, combs, razors, sunblock, and shampoo. If you’d like to donate a little something to help them continue events like this in the future, you can do that here 🙂 Read more
There’s a summer camp for children ages 5-10 in Colorado where the kids play games and sing and draw… Sounds good so far. Then you hear about what else they do and you discover this is basically a camp for con-artists-in-the-making: When they’re ready, kids can also learn how to read auras, set energetic boundaries, set intentions and meet spirit guides. “I don’t except a 5-year-old to grasp all of this right away, but it’s like we’re planting a seed,”… Read more
This is an article by Ed Buckner and Michael Buckner. It appears in the 2nd/3rd Quarter 2012 issue of American Atheist Magazine. American Atheist is available at Barnes & Noble and Book World bookstores in the US and Chapters Indigo bookstore in Canada. You can subscribe to the magazine by clicking here. Note: Footnotes/citations were not included in this posting but are available in the print version. … American elections — all of them, at every level — are full… Read more
