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.
You would think officials from Ellwood City (in Pennsylvania) would have learned their lesson by now… Last year, they allowed a Nativity Scene — and nothing else — to be displayed in the Municipal Building. It was a clear endorsement of Christianity. When they started to see legal challenges come their way, they allowed other groups to submit their own displays. FFRF obliged. There were unnecessary rallies in defense of the Nativity Scene (as if the atheists were coming to… Read more
The Kennesaw State University Atheists United group (in Atlanta, Georgia) has a lot of big events coming up. As any group would do, they’re advertising the events via flyers on campus. On Sunday, someone sent a picture of one of the flyers with what appears to be an honest-to-goodness bloody cross on it to the Twitter account of KSU Atheists United: The KSU group bravely responded with this: The sender seems to think that their red cross is something to… Read more
This is the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s newest billboard in St. Louis, Missouri. Following their previous full-page newspaper ads, the message encourages people to Quit the Church: “Most Americans are not Catholic, yet the Catholic Church wants our civil laws to bend to the will of one church,” noted FFRF Co-President Dan Barker. “The Catholic Church is free to preach its irrational doctrine that contraception is a ‘sin’ to its own membership — the vast majority of whom disregard that… Read more
There’s video of me and Jesse Galef on CNN! The transcript is here. A few things to note: 1) I didn’t know I was sitting at an angle. Awkward… 2) No one told me about the image behind me. I knew there was a green screen, but I wasn’t expecting that… 3) When I’ve appeared on FOX in the past, I spend several minutes before going on air having makeup put on me. At CNN, no makeup. What’s up with… Read more
John Richards, a retiree living in Boston (in England), decided to put the following sign on his door: Religions are fairy stories for adults Seems harmless. People display their religious beliefs on their property all the time — a cross in a window, a “god loves you” welcome mat, etc. But, because he’s an atheist, the police are telling him he could be arrested for his “threatening” message: [Richards] told The Standard: “The police said I could be arrested if… Read more