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.
The 2011 Australian census was released today and there’s good news when it comes to religion: While Catholicism has remained the most common religion with a quarter of the population, Anglicans have lost ground to those identifying themselves with no religion. The non-believers are now the second largest group with 22.3 per cent of the population, up from 18.7 per cent in 2006. To which I say: Efrique made this helpful chart (take note of the increasing number of black… Read more
In response to how Pastor Rick Warren wants to control which people his staffers follow on Twitter, reader Dano created this redesign of Warren’s bestselling book: Too bad that book would sell hundreds of millions of copies, too… What exactly would a Warren-Driven life consist of? (Besides lots of Saddlebacking, I mean.) Read more
I had no idea the director of Fight Church was the same guy who directed Holy Rollers (now streaming on Netflix). Holy Rollers was featured on This American Life last week — it’s the story of a group of people who count cards while playing Blackjack and make lots of money. Sound familiar? Maybe. But this time, they’re all Christian. Good luck making sense of that 🙂 The trailer for that movie is below: Read more