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.
In response to the posting about the ridiculously strict rules at Bob Jones University, a reader sent me a “Guide for a Yiddishe Summer Experience” (PDF) — basically the summer camp rulebook for an ultra-orthodox group of Hasidic Jews. Check out these bits… That last bit is the scariest. 1 guy, 1 girl in a car? Not ok. 3 guys, 1 girl in a car? What could possibly go wrong…? The same guidebook also points out that women (sometimes as… Read more
Ron Williams wanted his children to attend a secular school in Australia, so you can imagine his surprise when his children told him they were attending “assemblies where the chaplain presided and a rap song was played extolling the virtues of chaplains over teachers as adults kids could trust.” As it turned out, it was all part of a program funded by the country’s government. In fact, since 2007, schools could be eligible for up to $20,000 if they began… Read more
If you’re near Colorado, you’ll want to make plans to attend the first ever Colorado Secular Conference this July — it’s free and it’s on a weekend! Our goal is to allow secular people from around the region to meet one another, share ideas, and to learn from several different speakers on a variety of topics. This is a golden opportunity for secularists, humanists, atheists, agnostics, freethinkers and others to come together. You can register here. Read more
Remember the video of the four-year-old boy singing “Ain’t no homos gonna make it to heaven”? Initially, when the video was posted, no one knew which church that was. A guy named Mike figured it out, though. The most amazing part about it? Anyone with basic Internet-stalking skills could’ve done it. Morgan Watkins of The Indianapolis Star explains: So he decided to find the video’s source, starting with the user who posted it, Funnyman1972. A search of the user’s videos… Read more